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hood rich

hood rich adjective: exhibiting flamboyant spending habits, while doing nothing to improve one’s living conditions.

Adjective

hood rich (comparative more hood rich, superlative most hood rich)

  1. (slang) Exhibiting flamboyant spending habits, while doing nothing to improve one’s living conditions.
    • Finally, we must change the “Hood Rich” mentality. The rap group Cash Money described this mentality perfectly when they sung about not being able to pay rent or bills but driving in a new E-class Mercedes and dressing “fly”.2005, Malcolm D Carter, $7 an Hour Ain't No Job: The Second Emancipation of the Black Race, Sundog, Limited, →ISBN, page 43
    • In the mix of all the drama, Kira unintentionally falls for a new hood rich cat who has it all. Money, good looks, and a girl back home in Jersey!2005, anonymous, in Kiki Swinson, I'm Still Wifey, Melodrama Publishing, 0-9717021-5-2, front cover

Forms of hood rich

comparativemore hood rich
superlativemost hood rich

Questions about hood rich

What does hood rich mean?
Hood rich means exhibiting flamboyant spending habits, while doing nothing to improve one’s living conditions.
What part of speech is hood rich?
Hood rich is an adjective.

Words near hood rich in the dictionary

  1. hood ornaments
  2. hood rat
  3. hood ratish
  4. hood rats
  5. hood rattish
  6. hood rich
  7. Hood River
  8. Hood River County
  9. hood suppression system
  10. HOOD syndrome
  11. hood unit

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