DA BOMB!

By Panawan Panpattanasawat Soyung Yoo

SLANG PRESENTATION

DA BOMB!

It can be noun "da bomb" or verb "bomb"

There are 16 definitions in urban dictionary

It can mean cool, excellent, old car, a failure, marijuana, very expensive, success, to fail, computer error, unpopular, move very fast etc.

Da Bomb!

n. something/someone that is the best

Da Bomb!

n. a very attractive woman

Old Bomb!

n. an old car in very poor condition

Bomb

v. to fail badly

Sentences with Da Bomb!

Michael Jordan was da bomb, he was the greatest

basketball player ever! I met a girl name's Stacey at the club last night.

She's da bomb! Everybody wanted to hook up with her. I just threw away my old bomb. It used to be my

grandpa's car which was made 30 years ago! I had to decide whether I should drop a Calculus class

because I wasn’t doing well in and absolutely bombed the

final exam therefore I bombed the entire class.

Who use it & how?

African-American slang that became popular in the 1990s

Used by teenager boys Replace 'The' with 'Da', and 'bomb' refers to something

very powerful and explosive Now, it is old fashion

Synonyms

Da bomb = Awesome, The best, Excellent, Perfect, Fabulous

Old bomb = Dilapidated car, Old car

To bomb = To fail

Evolution of word

1909 modern sense of "explosive device placed by hand or dropped from airplane"

1942 pretty woman

1953 old car1954 success

1963 a failure

late 1990s the best

Sourace: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bomb

Questionnaire

Location:

Park Ave. and SMSU

Interviewees:

A variety of age and gender

Demographic Variables

Number of Respondents

Sex

Female 4

Male 4

Age

10s 1

20s 3

30s 2

60s 1

70s 1

Interview Questions

Do you use this word? When did you first use this word? Do you think this word has positive or negative

connotations? Who do you think they're going to use this word

more?

How “da bomb” is used in real context?

Elderly people: don't know this slang

5/8 people: used when they were teenagers

5/8 people: think it would be used by young males

6/8 people: positive connotations such as cool, or awesome

Anomalies

One interviewee replied that the connotation varies with the context

E.g., The food is da bomb (positive)

The drug is da bomb (?)

“Da bomb” in Korean

In Korean -> negative connotations

In blind dates, when people do not like their partners, they'll say “she/he is da bomb”

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