honey dip
AAVE slang for an attractive woman — specifically one with a warm, smooth appeal that the honey metaphor captures perfectly.
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Born ~1990 · 1 year of recorded useDefinitions
AAVE slang for an attractive woman — specifically one with a warm, smooth appeal that the honey metaphor captures perfectly. Sweet, desirable, effortlessly appealing. In some usages it refers particularly to a light-skinned Black woman, reflecting colorism-inflected language within AAVE. The term shows up in hip-hop lyrics and urban vernacular from the 1990s onward, used to compliment someone's appearance with that smooth, flowing energy the phrase carries.
The whole track was dedicated to the honey dip he kept seeing at the coffee shop every morning.
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(AAVE) An attractive woman.
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(AAVE) A light-skinned black woman.
“Everyday I mourn the loss of a walkable Tim Hortons, but all I can think about right now is that damn temporary timbt flavour they've got right now and I just want a box of fifty of them. ...and some honey dip timbits because I'm a slut for those.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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