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Crip
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- 1 A cripple. offensive
"Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it.""
- 2 A member of The Crips, a violent Los Angeles criminal gang who typically wear blue and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.
"My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word."
- 3 A person with a disability.
- 1 To do a Crip Walk.
- 2 To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
"In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer."
Etymology
Clipping of cripple.
Clipping of cripple.
Originally from crib, reflecting the young age of most gang members; later influenced by cripple, referring to the canes they used to carry.
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