crenshaw

Crenshaw and neighboring Leimert Park is one of the largest middle-class black neighborhoods in the United States, despite heavy damage from the 1992 riots and the 1994 earthquake. However, the growth of the gang-dominated crack cocaine trade in the 1980s made Crenshaw district one of the most violent neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with the stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard between Slauson Avenue and Adams Boulevard remaining a virtual free-fire zone for years. For the most of its length Crenshaw is just another unremarkable South Central thoroughfare. It runs from Long Beach in the south up to Wilshire Boulevard where it ends. The fact that Crenshaw stops dead at the northen edge of South Central - at the point where the racial mix starts to change rapidly - gives the street its own significance. Since the fifties, Crenshaw has been a street which African Americans can think of as pretty much their own. Other than that, the only other notable peculiarity of Crenshaw's geography comes around the junction with Slauson; at this point it becomes the widest street in Los Angeles, divided by a central reservation, laid out long ago with grand ambition that somehow it hasn't yet lived up to, except once a week, on Sundays, when the street really comes alive with the Sunday-night cruise. From Adams, past the Crenshaw-Baldwin Hills Mall, through Leimart Park and down Imperial, Black and Mexican youths come out flossin their chromes, and motors. It's the time when African American and Latino youth gets to rule three miles of tarmac. The Crenshaw Cruise is a carnival that anyone can join, and it's free. There are so few places where young men and women can hang out together in South Central, without trouble. There is little public space and local parks routinely become territories of individual gangs. The bigger streets, like Crenshaw, often form the borderlands between gang turfs, are neutral ground, as long as you stick to the street itself. This lack of safe space for people to meet feeds back into gang animosities. If there were more situations like the Crenshaw cruise availble, in which members of different gangs could socialise together there would be less mutual fear and hatred on the streets.

"Remember K day,
weekends--Crenshaw--MLK
automatics rang free cause
niggas' lost their way"

- Tupac "To live and die in LA"

by J. T September 14, 2008

crewskank

A girl who is on a crew (rowing) team who never wears a shirt (only a sports bra) and short shorts no matter how cold it is out. She never works out or tries. The sole reason for her being on the team is to flirt with the boys.

1. Can you believe the coach allowed that crewskank to not do the erg?

2. That crewskank has hooked up with half the boys on the crew team!

by Ms. Michelle September 6, 2008

crenshawd

to be crenshawed is to be going along with all things crenshaw boulevard...drinkin, smokin, straight west coastin, blazin, shootin, runnin, gang warfare, poppin off, and getting chased by the infamous cuffers known as cops

Shit me and mah homies was gettin crenshaw'd when these other niggers come up frontin, next thing we was blastin each other and the cops came

by DtC-ANwes. Maverick January 3, 2005

Crenshaw Maggot

used by Crip Gangmembers in LA to disrespect the Crenshaw Mafia Blood Gang
Crenshaw Mafia is a set of the Blood gang on Crenshaw bloulevard in Los Angeles it is populated by the Bloods whose worst enemy if the Crips. the crips call Crenshaw Mafia members Crenshaw Maggots

we finna blast on some crenshaw maggots

all them niggas on 109th roll wit them crenshaw maggots

by westsider781 March 19, 2009

crenshaw

A term used to define something that is considered feeble, of no use and or generally undesirable.
Crenshaw is a word that symbolizes pathetic awfulness, and by calling someone or something a crenshaw, you are essentially insulting the person or object.

“Tyler, why are you using that crenshaw Nerf Blaster, it is known for weakly firing darts.”

by Cecil The Cave Troll August 6, 2023

The Crenshaw District

The Crenshaw District

/distrikt /
proper noun
•a borough or district which moves as an administrative unit

•a town (as distinct from a city) with corporation and privileges granted

I’m from
The crenshaw district , where you gotta

“Be safe & “Cee safe “

The most popular borough in Los Angeles !! Recognized in film , fashion , and lifestyle

by The Crenshaw District LaShay B December 6, 2021

creashaks organzine

A seed in Minecraft that will give you the seed "0". This world is known for being glitched.

Person 1: "What seed do you want me to have for my minecraft world?"
Person 2: "Creashaks Organzine"

by PigIA January 13, 2021