crip

[krip] Origin

crip

[krip]
noun Slang: Offensive.
a cripple.

Origin:
1915–20, Americanism; by shortening
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Crip is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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Word Origin & History

Crip
member of a major U.S. street gang, founded in South Central Los Angeles 1971, the name supposedly originally was cribs, partly a reference to the youth of most of the original members; and altered when they began carrying "pimp canes, to Crip, who has been attested in U.S. slang as a shortening of cripple
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(n.) since 1918.
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