Slang Files · 📟 '90s & hip-hop
G33Z3R Slang Files · 1995–1999
Da bomb
🗳️ Did you say it?
Be one of the first to weigh in. No account needed.
The best thing there is, from hip-hop slang where the bomb had meant excellent for a while. By 1996 it was on sitcoms and cereal boxes, which is the signal it was over.
Da bomb is the '90s word most likely to appear on a novelty T-shirt about the '90s, which is its own kind of immortality.
Sources: Wiktionary — Da bomb
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Da bomb.
'90s & hip-hop · 1994–1999
Means: Excellent; the bag of chips is a bonus on top
'90s & hip-hop · 1993–1999
Means: An exclamation of triumph
'90s & hip-hop · 1993–1999
Means: Excellent, cool; about a beat, heavy and good
'90s & hip-hop · 1988–1999
Means: Stylish, attractive, sharp
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