blood n.2
1. (US/UK black) a (fellow) black person.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Rivers of Blood 49: D’you hear where that old white bastard on Manchester blew up one of the blood? | |
| ‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2 10: Blood, n. Negro. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | My Main Mother 147: You bloods got any bread? | |
| Tenants (1972) 45: Jewgirls are the best whores and are tryin to cut the bloods down by makin us go get circumcise. | |
| Black Players 127: If they see a blood [...] stranded, they take them home and feed them. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines xix: All the brothers and sisters they blood. [Ibid.] 26: The expressions blood, bleed [...] speak of a kind of kinship that unites black people. | |
| ‘Bad Brains’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 23: Who would’ve ever thought that one day some bloods would go to the white boy looking for the spirit? | |
| Night Dogs 357: In Vietnam, black guys, “Bloods,” called the Vietnamese gooks, slopes and dinks’. | |
| Rope Burns 111: You bloods got no blood. | |
| Times Rev. 30 Apr. 23/3: Blood, they sure these things ain’t got no fucking recording shit? | |
| Pigeon English 116: Don’t worry, blud, you just stay with us. | |
 | www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads Grime Terminology Guide 🌐 Blud/Bruv - Greeting to a person, friend (Alright blud). | |
| theculturetrip.com ‘Guide to London Slang 10 Jan. 🌐 Blad – brother. |
2. (US black) a young black man.
| ‘Gang Members & the Police’ in Bordua Police 91: ‘[T]hey caught me stone cold sittin’ behind the wheel of a ‘60 Pontiac. I said it belong to my uncle, but [...] the name of the registration was O’Shaunessee or O’Something, some old fat name like that. The cop knew there wasn’t no bloods [Negroes] [sic] named things like that. | |
| Ringolevio 38: A few bloods who were going to short-circuit his sex life. | |
| (con. 1964–73) [title] Bloods An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. | |
| Close Pursuit (1988) 94: There was a Transit cop in the car, a Latin kid. [...] a ‘cream’ in a car full of home boys and bloods from the black projects. | |
| (con. c.1970) Phantom Blooper 14: Half of my people are salty black grunts, but Black John Wayne has ordered the bloods to stand down and to stand by for mutiny. |
3. a term of address to a fellow black; by ext. a general term of address, used by any race.
| Rivers of Blood 231: ‘Hey, blood!’ he said to the others standing around. ‘The fuzz is gonna come visit the park’. | |
| Animal Factory 3: Listen, blood, I damn sure know Cool Breeze. | |
| Fort Apache, The Bronx 97: Just take it off the streets, blood. | |
| Muscle for the Wing 96: ‘You’re looking good, Tip.’ ‘Hey, you too, li’l blood.’. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 292: Yo, bleed, what it is? | |
| Deadmeat 86: Where yu off tu, blood? | |
| Londonstani (2007) 3: Yeh, blud, safe, innit. | |
| Times Rev. 30 Apr. 23/3: Blood, they sure these things ain’t got no fucking recording shit? | |
| (con. 1972) What It Was 140: Got a favor to ask, blood. | |
| ‘Shut Up’ 🎵 Nowadays all of my shows sold out / Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out. | |
| Border [ebook] ‘That shit gets attention, young blood, and attention is bad for business’. | |
| Who They Was 4: Fuck this, we need to cut blood. |
4. (UK black) a blood relation.
| Black Jargon in White America 58: blood n. [...] 2. a black person who is one’s biological relative: That’s the blood, baby! | |
| Slam! 177: ‘But say I was your blood, right?’ [...] ‘if you were my blood?’ Goldy leaned against the wall. ‘You mean, like, if you were my son or something?’ . | |
| Crumple Zone 168: You’re dissin my blood. |
5. (US campus) a friend.
| Campus Sl. Fall 1: blood – friend [...] Yo, blood, what’s happening? | |
| Hope College ‘Dict. of New Terms’ 🌐 blood n. Used to describe someone that an individual is friends with. The term is most commonly found among teenagers. It is possibly derived from the term ‘blood brothers’ or to the use of blood for someone you are related to or for someone who is of the same ethnic background as you. |
In phrases
a young man, making his way in the world; thus (orig. US black) the up and coming youth who are learning the mores of street life; also as a term of address.
| Life in London (1869) 193: The young blood in search of adventures. | |
| Night Side of N.Y. 22: They make way, however, for several young bloods. | |
| Centre Democrat (Bellefonte, PA) 2 Mar. 1/6: There is that well-known ‘young blood’ Simon Cameron. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘His Adopted Daughter’ in Roderick (1972) 179: Like many young bloods in the twenties, I had regarded myself as a wicked fellow. | |
| Dly Inter-Mountain (Butte, MT) 20 Aug. 3/5: A terrific fist fight between two young society bloods created a [...] sensation last night. | |
| Kendrick Gaz. (ID) 10 June 2/5: First Young Blood— These — aw — dances are fearful. Second Young Blood— Awfully fearful. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 8 May 12/1: Once there was a young blood who considered himself the entire Roquefort. | |
| New York Day by Day 28 May [synd. col.] For evening gaieties the young bloods are wearing linen spats. | |
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | One Jamaica Gal 14: Obadiah could be found any evening at the Chinese shop near Belgrave Gap where all the young bloods congregated to drink a gill of rum and discuss current matters. | |
| Lucky Palmer 206: I know what you young bloods are like. I may be an old woman, but I’ve been around. | |
| Fowlers End (2001) 9: The young bloods of Fowlers End were strutting, in their indescribably repulsive hang-dog, drag-heeled way, in the High Street. | |
| Owning Up (1974) 66: The young bloods of Huddersfield or Barnsley staggered green-faced from the bar. | |
| Pimp 63: Now Youngblood, about Pepper. You don’t know anything about it. | |
| Carlito’s Way 45: Ask some young blood [...] who goes upstate on some check forgery. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 39: Young blood! Momma didn’t teach ’im enough. | |
| House of Slammers 177: Ain’t no tellin’ how many-a these young bloods me and my Simbas [...] done kept from bein’ turned into fags. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 153: Youngblood, you say you from Cavalier Manor? | |
| (con. 1949) Big Blowdown (1999) 157: A couple more beers down here, youngblood. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Filth 18: Some schemie young bloods pished up on the toon and tooled up. | |
| Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Whitebread. Gangbang. Youngblood. Woodshed. | |
| ? (Pronounced Que) [ebook] Please, young blood, listen! I ain’t no stick-up kid! |