noun Street Slang

bounce

· noun · nola / southern hip-hop

New Orleans hip-hop subgenre built on call-and-response chants over the Triggerman loop.

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A New Orleans hip-hop subgenre defined by the Triggerman and Brown Beat loops, MC call-and-response chants, ward shout-outs, and relentless ass-shaking energy. Born in the housing projects in the late 80s / early 90s, it stayed regional for decades before bleeding into mainstream pop via Big Freedia, Drake's 'Nice For What', and Beyoncé's 'Formation'.

“The whole second line turned into a bounce set once the DJ hit the Triggerman.”
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To leave — older general slang ('I'm 'bout to bounce') still in heavy use across the US. Not the NOLA genre, just the verb.

“It's late, I'm gonna bounce.”
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When you turf a patient to another team and they return-to-sender within hours or days, that's a bounce. Career-bruising for the doctor who did the turfing — it means the receiving team called your bluff and proved the patient was your problem all along. Also a verb: to bounce a patient back.

“Day-three bounce from cardiology — turns out it really was a GI bleed.”
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bounce In A Sentence

The whole second line turned into a bounce set once the DJ hit the Triggerman.
It's late, I'm gonna bounce.

Origin & Usage

Crystallised in New Orleans housing projects circa 1990–1991; MC T. Tucker & DJ Irv's 'Where Dey At' (1991) is the usual ground-zero citation.

Variants bouncebackbounced
Tags #nola#bounce#hip-hop#dance

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