Crips
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- proper noun
- US
- I was thinking about those street gangs they have down in Los Angeles, those Crips and those Bloods.
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Watch on YouTubeI mean, you've got cartels, you've got the Bloods and the Crips, Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings.
- I mean, you've got cartels, you've got the Bloods and the Crips, Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings.
- Black and Mexican gangs, Crips, Bloods.
- I've hired former gang members at one point, the staff at Quest, literally I had Bloods and Crips working the same production line.
- But also, I have a foothold in South Central Los Angeles, man, where he has a bunch of cousins who are actually Crips.
- I grew up in a gang territory, gang neighborhood where there were Crips and Bloods, and I had to quickly realize that in order to make it out, I couldn't be either.
- Y'all have bloods and Crips here nigga say hell yeah.
- Do you know what Crips are opposite of bloods?
- Did you imagine sacrifice as you called the Crips to life?
- So it's like Kendrick Lamar unites the Bloods and Crips with date dress.
- These are the Bloods and the Crips and the whatever, you know, I mean, these things will pop.
- So who the fuck is y'all OPS all the Crips?
Examples
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I grew up in a gang territory, gang neighborhood where there were Crips and Bloods, and I had to quickly realize that in order to make it out, I couldn't be either.
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This whole neighborhood belongs to the Eastside Crips.
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It's so you got the Crips from the north side.
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Yeah, the royal order of the Crips.
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I actually looked into joining the Crips.
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It's like the Bloods and the Crips going at it.
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I've hired former gang members at one point, the staff at Quest, literally I had Bloods and Crips working the same production line.
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A long simmering feud between the Eastside Crips and a rival white-power gang has now exploded into all-out warfare.
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Williams, founder of the notorious Crips gang, was sentenced to death for killing four people in 1979.
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The fight between the Bloods and the Crips is postponed until next Friday.
Synonyms
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A group of people who commit crimes together
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crips is also the name of a street gang from Los Angeles, and one common story says the name began as a short, rough form of cripple or 'Cribs' used by early members. That is why Crips today often refers specifically to that gang and its blue symbols.