dookie
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• noun
North American Feces or excrement; a piece of dung (used chiefly as mild slang).
"Make sure to watch your step on the lawn so you do not step in dog dookie."
American A thick, heavy gold chain with a braided or rope-like link pattern, popularized in late-1980s hip-hop fashion.
"The vintage photograph showed the rapper wearing a tracksuit and a massive gold dookie around his neck."
• verb
North American To defecate or pass feces (used as mild slang).
"The stray cat dookied in the neighbor's flowerbed again."
• Rhymes for dookie
Word Origin & Etymology
Originating in 20th-century American slang, the word is likely a diminutive variation of the nursery word "doo-doo." In late-1980s hip-hop culture, the term was playfully adopted for thick braided gold chains whose heavy links resembled excrement.