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Blood
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blood Blööd
English
Etymology 1
Noun
en Blood Indian.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
en.
Etymology 3
When the gang was formed, the term en blood, from en blood brother, was common street slang, used in the 1960s by young Black and Hispanic men and returning veterans from the Vietnam War to refer to friends.
Alternative forms
en blood
en 🅱 🅱️ internet slang
Noun
A member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
en Crip
2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins:
My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.
Derived terms
en b-
Anagrams
en bdloo boldo
Low German
Alternative forms
nds Blaud Blaut
nds Blod Blot Bloot
nds Blitt Low Prussian, rare
Etymology
From nds gml blôt, from nds osx blōd, from nds gmw-pro *blōd, from nds gem-pro *blōþą. Compare de Blut, Dutch and West Frisian nl bloed, English en blood, Danish and Swedish da blod.
Noun
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