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What does AMK mean? Subscribe to us on YouTubeAnyone who spends a lot of time on the Internet or chatting comes across new expressions that you don't immediately know what they actually mean. In addition to the popular chat abbreviations that are known from WhatsApp and Co., this also includes words that come from English. One of these words is the term "dope". What does it mean exactly?
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Dope: meaning easily explained
Dope is an adjective and means something like "excellent", "cool" or "excellent". Accordingly, the word is then also mostly used:
Sometimes you read the word in sentences like "Stay Dope" or "Be Dope". In this case, that means something like "stay cool" or "stay cool" - so it's an invitation to demonstrate a casual charisma - in new German: your swag.
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What does dope mean in German - and where does the word come from?
The question remains: where does the word dope actually come from? It is clear that it originally comes from English - but originally it had a slightly different meaning. “Dope” originally referred to drugs and intoxicants such as marijuana. These illegal substances are known to have a stimulating effect, which can also be seen in the words "doping" or "dopen".
In street slang, this trait became generalized over time: eventually dope no longer just referred to drugs, but came to be seen as a positive attribute in general. With the global triumph of hip-hop culture in the late 80s/early 90s, the word migrated into general vocabulary and eventually ended up in the German youth language.
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