A nickname given to the great jazz pianist Thelonius Monk due to the friendships he had with cultural rabble rousers like Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary.
Trish Best, best known by her stage name FELONI, is an African-American lesbian rapper from Detroit, Michigan. She is also known by many of her fans as the "Godmother" of the "out" urban lesbian hip-hop movement. She was featured on Coming Out Stories, a reality television show on LOGO that depicts the lives of gays and lesbians coming out to their families and friends.
The act of upgrading a misdemeanor charge to a felony. This is usually because there are prior convictions for the same crime. In a drug case, it could be because the drug quantity ended up being greater than originally thought, and a felony amount.
Damn, I got caught with a bag of weed. The cops of the scenethought it was a misdemeanor amount. When the lab weighed it, it came back heavy and they felonized me!
I caught a DUI, and because I have three priors, they felonized this one.