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DJJ GANG
TERMINOLOGY

This section provides law enforcement personnel with a dictionary of slang terms used by
inmates and gangs, these terms are likely to change as gangs become more creative. Please feel
free to contribute to this page, by contacting SRG Coordinator Monique Brandenburg.

Term Meaning
100 PROOF The real deal; genuine
13 Southern California; letter M; Mexican Mafia
14 Used by Hispanic gangs to indicate Northern
California.
187 Penal code for murder in California; to kill
360 someone (usually in graffiti).
411 Knowledge
5-0 Information
911 The police
6-POINT A meeting
ADIDAS Folks identifier
AGGY All Day I Disrespect All Slobs (Bloods)
APARTMENT Mad; furious; upset
B/K Prison
Blood Killer

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BABY LOVE Money
BANGER Gang member
BASE HEAD Person hooked on cocaine.
BEEF Problems; Trouble
BGD Black Gangster Disciples
BGDN Black Gangster Disciple Nation
BGF Black Guerilla Family
BLAST Shoot
BLATT BLATT Blood Land and Territory

BLOOD (what dat red be like?) Hello (greeting to another Blood member)

BLOODETTE Female Blood member
BLOOD-IN, BLOOD-OUT To gain admission to some gangs you must kill
BLUE someone, and to resign you must die or you will
BREAK be killed by fellow members.
BRUH Usually the Crips gang color.
BUST A CAP Run; get away
BUSTED Brother; Friend; Associate
BUSTER Shoot someone.
Caught in the act
  Looking homeless; poor
fake gang member; poser

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C/K Crip Killer
CK RIDING Crip Killing
C QUEEN Female Crips member.
CHEESE Cheat
CO-SIGN Approve
COM ON SON For Real?!
CRAB Crips Rule All Bloods.
CRABS Disrespectful way of addressing Crips.
CRIB House; home
CRIPPIN’ Full gang mode; Crip gang banging
CRIPS culture
CRIP WALKING (c-walking) Community Revolution in Progress.
CUZ Set of dance moves
CVL A form of greeting between two Crips
DEAD PRESIDENTS members
DEAD RAG Conservative Vice Lords
DEUCE DEUCE money
DIME Crips reference to Bloods
DIME BAG .22 caliber gun
DIS A 10-year sentence; pretty girl
$10 worth of drugs (marijuana)
  disrespect

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DOGS Other Blood members
DONUTS Vice Lord term used to "put down" the
DREADLOCKS Disciples.
DRESSED DOWN Twisted hair; locs
DROPPING DIMES
DROPPING THE FLAG Wearing gang-related colors.
DURAG
DWB Snitch; to tell on someone.
EIGHT BALL
ENDS Leaving the gang.
FADED Head wrapping, usually to maintain hair
FIEND waves
FLAMED UP Dirty White Boys
FLOSS
FLYING THE COLORS 1/8-ounce of cocaine

FOLKS Money

FRESH Drunk; high
FRONTIN
Crack cocaine user.
  Individual wearing the color red all
over
Show off

Representing the gang colors.
Reference to Black Gangster Disciple
nation; as one nation and their affiliates.
Family member/ Friend
Good looking; clean
Talking about someone; embarrassing
them.

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G Gangster term for 18-26 year old
Gee’d UP members
GANG BANG Dress-up; getting fancy
GANG BANGER Fighting with rival gangs.
GANG BANGING Gang member
GANJA Gang activity
GANK Marijuana
GEEK To steal
GEEK MONSTER
GHOST Someone who is loaded; high.
GOVERNMENT
Disappear
GRAFFITI An individual’s whole name
Territory marker; gang roll call; if any graffiti is
HARD-LOOK (mean mug) written upside down, it shows disrespect to that
HARDCORE gang and was written by an opposing gang.
HAVE HEART Staring at; grounds to fight over.
Extreme; the big time gangster
HEAT To be fearless
Law enforcement officer
HERB Unwanted attention
Marijuana
HIGH ROLLER Drug dealer; usually shot-callers who control the
drug trafficking of a gang and retain the bulk of
  the drug profits.

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HOMEBOY One of the boys from the neighborhood gang or
HOMIE group; a fellow gang member.
HOOCH Fellow gang member
HOOPTEE An alcoholic drink made by fermenting a sugary
HOT BOX syrup or liquid and bread.
HOW YOU SOUND Car or vehicle
HUSTLER
HYPED Stolen car
IBG
ICE That’s stupid; foolish
ICG
One who makes money by any means necessary
ILLING
Excited or doing well
INKED
JACKED Insane Bloods gang
JIM JONES
JIVING Crystal methamphetamine
JOCKER
JOINT Insane Crips gang
JONING Making mental mistakes
Bugging; Tripping
  To receive a tattoo

Robbery; Robbed at gunpoint
Marijuana joint laced with cocaine and dipped in
PCP.
Attempting to fool someone; joking

One who constantly hangs around another

A prison; the walls; a marijuana cigarette.
Talking about someone in a joking manner,
usually involves insults

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JUICE Respect
JUMPED IN
JUMPED OUT Initiation into a gang

JUMPING IN (JUMPED) The process of leaving a gang which requires the
person to fight 2 or more members for 15 to 60
K-SWISS seconds
KC
KICKIN IT Process of being initiated into a gang which
KICKS requires the candidate to fight 2 or more members
KILLA for 15 to 30 seconds to show he/she is not afraid
KITE to defend his honor.
KLUCKA
KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING? Kill Slobs When I See Slobs
KOOL
L/K King Crips
LA RAZA
LADY (ole Taking it easy; chilling; cooling; hanging out
lady)
LEGIT Shoes; sneakers

  Killer

A letter or note to another inmate, usually slid
under the door (from cell to cell) by means of a
thin string

Dope fiend

Understand?

It's all right.

A Latin King
identifier.

The race;
Chicanos.

Girlfriend

For real; proper

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LET’S GET Let’s go kill
THIS someone
MONEY
LET'S RIDE Seek someone
ON SOMEONE out, usually
LIQUID retaliation.
JUICE
LIT UP PCP
LIVING
LARGE Shot at.
LOC
Living a high-
LOC styled life.
LOC’ed OUT Crazy; loco
LOCO (Crips)
LOW RIDER
LRZ Love only Crips
M
Acting crazy
MMM
Crazy
MACHINE
Car with hydrolics
MACK
La Raza gang
MACKIN
Mexican Mafia
MAIN MAN
Money, Mackin
MAN (da Murder

  Machine gun

Ability to sweet
talk girls.

Getting girls

Best friend; back-
up

Law enforcement

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man) officer
MAN WITH
A GRUDGE Judge
MARK
Prospective gang
MARRIED member

MEAN MUG Membership into
METH the Aryan
MISSION Brotherhood.
MOBBING
MONIKERS Staring at;
MUD DUCK grounds to fight
over.
MULE
Methamphetamine
MY NINE
NADA Violent act
NATION
NICK Gang members in
NICKEL large numbers

  Street name; a
way to identify.

Ugly girl

One who
smuggles drugs or
other contraband
into the prison for
another inmate.

9 mm. gun

Nothing

A large affiliation
of a number of
distinct gangs.

$5 worth of drugs

A 5-year sentence

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NORTENO Northern
Hispanic/Chicano
NOT
I don't think so.
NUT UP
Angry; mad at
ON THE somebody.
MENU Someone to be
(food) seriously beaten
ON THE or murdered
STRENGTH Based on the
OUTA facts.
POCKET Getting beside
yourself; wrong
PACKING Person has a gun in his
possession.
PAY BACK Vendetta, or retaliation, for a
former wrong.
PC
Protective custody
PEACE OUT
PEANUT Goodbye; see you later.
BUTTER
PIECE Crips' disrespect for Bloods.
(toolie)
PIMPED Gun
OUT
A well-dressed person or car
PIRU
Street on which the Bloods
PLAY ME originated; Nickname for the
FOR A Bloods.
SUCKER
Take advantage of.
PLAYA
One with a lot of women/
  men.

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PLAYER Individual who earns a lot of
PLAYED respect
OUT
POPPED Over; no longer used.
POP A CAP
PSYCO Arrested

PhD Shoot a gun
PUT EM IN
CHECK Crazy
PUT IN
WORK Pumpkin Head Deluxe;
PUT THAT swollen face and eyes
ON YA SET Discipline someone; check
someone
PYRAMID Do a shooting; performing
gang duties
QUEEN Affirm that you're telling the
RACHET truth.
RAN UP ON The three corners of the
triangle represent physical,
REEFER mental, and spiritual
RIDE ON/ knowledge.
RIDE ON
SOMEBODY Female member of a gang.
RIP OFF
ROAD DOG A mess

  sneak attack.

Marijuana cigarettes or
marijuana itself.

To seek someone out as a
target of some violent act

Steal; take advantage of

Close friend

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ROCK Crystallized cocaine; rock
ROOSTER cocaine.
ROSCOES
RU Derogatory name for PIRU
SATIN DISCIPLES
Police
SET
Piru member
SHERM
SHINE ON White Disciple members
SHOTCALLER
SIGNING Gang neighborhood; a
SLANGIN KEYS member refers to his gang as
SLANGING a set of a larger nation of
SLIPPIN gangs; (see Nation);
SLOBS sometimes refers to a
SMACK neighborhood.
Marijuana dipped in
  embalming fluid

Show off

Person in charge.

Members identify
themselves by signing with
their hands.

Selling dope

Selling cocaine (drugs) on
the street.
Being careless, not watching
your back.
Disrespectful way of
addressing a Bloods
member.

Heroin

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SMASH and GRAB Robbery (usually involves
SMOKED OUT the theft of high item
SNAPS clothing)
SNITCH
SNOOVERS High
SNOW BUNNY
Money
SOLID TEARDROP
An informer; fink; rat; stool
SPEED BALL pigeon.
SPLIFF
SPRAYED An insult for the Hoover
SQUARE Street Crips.
STACK
STACKING White girlfriend
STASH
STRAIGHT The solid teardrop means
SHOOTER death of a close family
STRAPPED member; some Jamaicans
and Cubans also use the
  teardrop.

Combination of heroin and
cocaine.

A joint; one ounce = four
spliffs

Shooting multiple bullets at
someone.

Cigarette

A thousand dollars

Display of hand signals,
communication between
gang members

Hidden drugs or contraband.

Honest; truthfully speaking.

Armed with a gun.

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STUPID FRESH Really good.
SUR South; southern California.
SURENO A southern Hispanic.
TAG A gangs signature with
marker or paint.
TALKING SMACK Aggressive talking reckless
TG to another
THROW DOWN Tiny gangster
TOOL (toolie)
TRANSFERRED Fight
KEYS
TRICK BAG Gun
TRICKING Hand over control of a gang
TVL to another of a high rank
UBN Mislead a person; phoney.
UTVL
UVL Prostitution
VALIDATE
VAPORS Traveling Vice Lords
VATO
United Bloods Nation
VATO LOCO
VATOS Undertaker Vice Lords

  Unknown Vice Lords

Initiate

Feelings
Man/boy; guy; Chicanos
refer to each other as Vatos.
Gangster; person who's with
it; crazy dude.
Guys

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VICKY LOUS Disciple put-down for Vice
VIDA LOCA (mi vida Lords.
loco) Crazy life; street life; seen as
VIOLATION a tattoo (3 dots)
To break a gang rule and
VL receive a punishment.
VLK Renegade Vice Lords
WACKED
WEED Vice Lord Killers
WHAT IT B LIKE
WHAT IT C LIKE Kill
WHAT'S UP MY G
Marijuana
WHERE YOU FROM
Blood member greeting
WHITE GIRL
WORD Crip member greeting
YAYO
YO Hello
YOU PLAYED Are you a member of a
YOURSELF gang?
Cocaine
 
That's right; that's true.

Cocaine

Hello; hey.

You did yourself wrong.

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