to scare the hoes
- idiom
- Offensive
:
[vulgar] asustar a las mujeres
- If you keep talking about politics at the party, you'll scare the hoes.
Examples
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Playing that creepy music all night might scare the hoes away.
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She warned him not to start his rant, saying it would scare the hoes.
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Don't scare the hoes at the party!
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He always scares the hoes with his jokes.
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If you keep discussing controversial topics, you might scare the hoes away from joining the conversation.
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His loud and aggressive jokes tend to scare the hoes during the game night.
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She said his sudden outburst would definitely scare the hoes and ruin the fun at the gathering.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make someone feel afraid or unsure of themselves
540
1.0
To make someone feel afraid
148
3.2
To make someone feel very frightened
56
6.7
To make someone very afraid
5
8.8
To make someone very afraid
3
8.2
To frighten someone very much
3
6.9
To frighten someone very much
3
5.6
To make someone very afraid
2
3.2
To make someone feel afraid
To suddenly scare someone and make them jump
Antonyms
How Intimidating
148
3.2
- Offensive
294
4.9
540
1.0
7
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward verb + object construction: 'scare' (to frighten) + 'the hoes' (plural of the slang noun 'hoe'), so a learner who knows those constituent meanings can infer it means to frighten or make uncomfortable those people. The expression is informal and derogatory in register, which may affect recognition or acceptability, but its meaning is compositionally predictable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
The slang scare the hoes may come from a simple image: someone doing something so scary or awkward that people, often women, leave the place. So the scare makes the hoes go away, and the phrase now means 'to act in a way that makes others uncomfortable or drives them away'.