(drink/sip) haterade (1998)

[Wilson Gray]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

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> Subject:      (drink/sip) haterade (1998)
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> "Haterade" (also "hatorade", "hate-orade", etc.) is a blend of "hate"
> and
> "Gatorade"... Urbandictionary supplies some nuanced definitions:
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> haterade
> a figurative drink, representing a modality of thought, in which those
> who
> consume are themselves consumed by the negativity which with they speak
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haterade
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> Hatorade
> a figurative drink a hater may thirst for and share. Generally used
> when
> someone hops on the bandwagon to hate on someone or something.
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hatorade
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> This is late-'90s hiphop lingo, still popular in some circles.
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> Mac Dre, "3C Romp" on the album _Stupid Doo Doo Dumb_ (1998)
> Never drink haterade, Armani suits tailor made.
> http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/mac_dre/doo_doo/3c_romp.mdr.txt
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> rec.music.hip-hop, 11 Aug 1998
> And whats up with the word "haterade" appearing all over that issue?
> [Referring to _Source Magazine_ #108, 8/98]
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.music.hip-hop/msg/
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> Portland Oregonian, 12 Mar 1999, p. 43 (Factiva)
> She still dresses in a baggy hip-hop style, but she's not strutting
> with a
> gangster stroll, nor player hating, ego trippin' or sipping haterade.
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> Press-Enterprise, 15 Jun 2001, p. AA16 (Factiva)
> That leaves two possibilities. One, that the jealous press is drinking
> "hatorade" (Durst's term) and out of sheer spite has united to
> trash-talk
> his band.
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> East Bay Express, 29 Jan 2003 (Proquest)
> One thing cool about my girl is that when another country totally
> opens a
> bottle of Haterade she's all, Nuh-uh! No you di'n't!
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> _Hip: The History_ by John Leland (2004), p. 3
> So if you must, raise a glass of Hatorade.
> http://print.google.com/print?id=oxzubo1GS7oC&q=hatorade
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> (Aside to Wilson: am I finally vindicated by "Nuh-uh! No you di'n't!"?
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411C&L=ADS-
> L&P=R3364 )
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> --Ben Zimmer
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Absolutely, Ben!

-Wilson