"shisety" (new word?)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>
>     Anyway, is "shisety" a term now being used in teenage slang? Does
> it exist at all outside the speech of the one snowboarder who used it
> on CNN?

Yes, it does. I first heard this in the speech of New York City
youth c.1996, and I know I have earlier written examples from
other sources.

Jesse Sheidlower