bucktee
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Somali bakhti (“corpse, dead thing”).[1]
Noun[edit]
bucktee (plural bucktees)
- (MTE, slang, derogatory) A homeless person or a drug addict.
- 2018 July 11, Jabbari Weekes, “The Rise of 6ixBuzzTV From Wasteman Memes to Toronto's Hip-Hop Centre”, in VICE[1], archived from the original on 2023-05-04:
- I bring up the account's regular posting of 'Bucktees,' Toronto slang for homeless people, and how often the account displays their erratic behaviour for laughs.
- 2019 October 13, “Toronto slang on the rise thanks to city's growing pop culture relevance”, in CBC News[2], archived from the original on 2022-07-06:
- During the Toronto Raptors' championship run, a fan-made sign referred to the opposing Milwaukee Bucks as the "Milwaukee Bucktees," bucktee being an insult deriving from a similar word in Somali.
References[edit]
- ^ Derek Denis (2021 March 4) “Raptors Vs. Bucktees: the Somali influence on Toronto Slang*”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 42, number 6, Routledge, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 566
Further reading[edit]
- “bucktee”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.