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• an affiliation or crew. Origin: hip hop.

  Last edited on Mar 19 2014. Submitted by Michelle T. from Houston, TX, USA on Dec 21 2001.

• It means ghetto, pretty much. Like you're keepin' it gully when your belt breaks and you use a string instead. It's a good thing, too, as opposed to "Damn, that car is so ghetto!"

  I'm just keepin' it gully.

  Last edited on Jan 20 2013. Submitted by Jeremy from Seattle, WA, USA on Apr 01 2002.

• See gangster.

  This song is gully.

  Last edited on Jan 20 2013. Submitted by Jimmy D. from Queens Village, NY, USA on May 29 2002.

• Stay cool.

  Keep it gully, son.

  Last edited on Jan 20 2013. Submitted by Anonymous from New York, NY, USA on Jul 01 2002.

• to act unstoppable or overly hard-headed.

  Tryin' to act tuff - go ahead be gully.

  Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by dick from Waltham, MA, USA on Mar 02 2003.

adjective

• of or relating to gangster or street life.

  I keep it gully.

  Last edited on Mar 19 2014. Submitted by Michelle T. from Houston, TX, USA on Dec 21 2001.

• to be authentic (to "keep it real")

  Last edited on Jan 20 2013. Submitted by Nate G. from Cleveland Heights, OH, USA on Jul 21 2004.

• exceptional

  That basketball player is gully.

  Last edited on Jul 26 2010. Submitted by Nate G. from Cleveland Heights, OH, USA on Jul 21 2004.

• used to refer to a person who is being Difficult, A pussy (scared to do something), Openly and blatantly stupid in public i.e. making a scene and/or embarrassing him/herself and those around them, Shady/suspect, Annoying, A coward.

  That nigga is bein' mad gully!

  Stop being fuckin gully son!

  Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by Jeff O. from Woodbridge, VA, USA on Mar 30 2006.

• Seems to be a New York City synonym for "hood" or "crook." Often heard on network cop shows, e.g. "Law and Order."

  NYC cop: I busted a coupla mooks.

  Last edited on Mar 30 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 29 1998.

• Baltimore MD Used on Homicide; Life on the streets by Detective Lewis.

  Will you just look at these mooks?

  Last edited on Jul 01 2002. Submitted by p. fitzwater from TX, USA on Jul 01 2002.

• An insignificant, contemptible person--usually male.

  What a fuckin' mook!

  Last edited on Oct 10 2002. Submitted by Keith F. from Tacoma, WA 98445, USA on Oct 10 2002.

• an insignificant or contemptible person. Origin is possibly from the word "jamoke" or "moke."

  Last edited on Apr 15 2011. Submitted by Gene S. from Hammond, IN, USA on Jan 10 2003.

• A large, clumsy person; oaf.

  You're stepping on my foot, you big mook!

  Last edited on Jan 10 2003. Submitted by Gene S. from Hammond, IN, USA on Jan 10 2003.

• an oaf, a loud boor, a witlessly enthusiastic fan of insignificant things or events.

  Last edited on May 31 2003. Submitted by Vaughn M. on May 31 2003.

noun

• person crappy or half-assed task is given to

  There is the wood cut-list mook.

  Last edited on Mar 23 2005. Submitted by Robert J. on Mar 23 2005.

verb

• when said person is assigned a crappy or half-assed duty, given a mindless or boring task; treated as something stepped in by a brain-dead manager type

  The front office secretary is cleaning the office fridge... looks like she's been mooked again!

  Last edited on Mar 23 2005. Submitted by Robert J. on Mar 23 2005.