dusted adj.1
1. beaten, defeated, killed.
(con. 1936–46) Winged Seeds (1984) 217: He was an old man, ‘dusted’, and could scarcely speak for coughing now. | ||
Big Rumble 27: Ya gonna get dusted, Claw. | ||
‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2 22: Dusted, adj. injured; beaten in a gambling game. | ||
Black Jargon in White America 63: dusted v. [...] 2. to be knocked down in a fight. |
2. shamed, humiliated.
Sl. U. 74: He was dusted when his girlfriend proved him wrong. |
3. (US black) emotionally overwhelmed.
Rakim Told Me 128: Kids who are sick of the artifice shown by shallow, copycat rappers [. . .] end up finding [Critical Beatdown] [...] And it still blows their mind. It still gets them dusted. |