26 definitions by bxmuscle
A term originating from Claude Brown's 1965 memoir "Man-Child in the Promised Land" about growing up in the streets of 1940s and 50s Harlem, NYC, one of the earliest and most powerful accounts of ghetto life and its culture. A "Man-Child" originally referred to a boy or adolescent from the streets who was prematurely exposed to and knowledgeable about sex, violence and crime, incarceration, adult responsibility for younger siblings due to a dysfunctional home, and hustling to make a living.
You think life in the 'hood is rough now? Check out Brown's book one day. By the time he was 15 he'd already been locked up, hustling for a living and doing whatever he had to to survive as a man-child on the streets.
by bxmuscle June 22, 2011
Someone who is untrustworthy, deceitful, malicious, hypocritical, etc. It describes someone who pretends to be friendly and well-intended in order to gain trust in order to mislead, deceive, or betray someone else.
Don't trust that girl. Like the serpent in the Garden she's pleasing to the eye and whispers sweet words in your ear, but she, too, is a snake that seduces and promises everything only to strike you dead when get close to her.
by bxmuscle August 3, 2021
Short for "a Whores' Stroll." A public area used by street-walkers to trawl for clients, usually carrying the connotation of low-end, down-trodden prostitutes working run-down and dangerous parts of town.
Pupo's sister got turned out by one of his boys while he was locked up. Now he's got her workin the Ho Stro by Hunts Point over by Bruckner Blvd most nights, $25 for a suck, $50 to get laid.
by bxmuscle June 12, 2013
To give a beat-down, administer an ass-kicking, or otherwise do physical injury to someone.
Archaic Meaning: In the 1970s, term used in male prisons to describe the initial forcible sodomizing of an inmate in order to make him into a "prison bitch." See the 1980 movie Penitentiary, in which the prison jock "Jesse" unsuccessfully tries to rape the prisoner called "Too Sweet" by the jocks, telling Too Sweet that "I'm gonna bust yo ass, I'm gonna bust you." The beating into submission of the intended "prison bitch" was preliminary to busting his ass open by and for sodomy. The beating phase became separated from the rape phase in the current meaning of "bust yo ass."
Archaic Meaning: In the 1970s, term used in male prisons to describe the initial forcible sodomizing of an inmate in order to make him into a "prison bitch." See the 1980 movie Penitentiary, in which the prison jock "Jesse" unsuccessfully tries to rape the prisoner called "Too Sweet" by the jocks, telling Too Sweet that "I'm gonna bust yo ass, I'm gonna bust you." The beating into submission of the intended "prison bitch" was preliminary to busting his ass open by and for sodomy. The beating phase became separated from the rape phase in the current meaning of "bust yo ass."
by bxmuscle October 4, 2010
An otherwise heterosexual man who while in prison engages in homosexual sex. Can include who men prefer women but resort to gay sex as an sexual and/or emotional outlet while incarcerated, as well as men who are forced into submissive sexual roles by other men punks.
Jose is straight, married and got kids but he was Prison Gay while he was doing that dime in Attica.
by bxmuscle January 23, 2009
A man in prison who pressures or forcibly rapes another prisoner for anal sex. He's a bandit not because he likes booty but because he steals it.
The Surenos are the worst booty bandits in San Quentin. They turn out every young dude that comes through the gates these days.
by bxmuscle September 6, 2009
A term originally associated with 19th century German philosophy, especially that of Hegel, in which the positive action of a person (the Subject/actor) transformed that which was acted upon (the Object/thing acted upon). 20th century radicals subsequently referred to cultures or peoples who were exploited, sexualized or romanticized in by Westerners as being "Objectified" in and by Western culture, rather than understood has having their own identities and agency.
Tunisian novelist Albert Menni's "The Colonizer and the Colonized" is one of the best books about how the European conquest of North Africa objectified Arabs and their culture.
by bxmuscle August 22, 2018