Meaning & use
Dissing
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Speaking disrespectfully about someone; showing contempt or insulting someone, especially in casual speech.
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The rapper's new track accused a rival of dissing him in an earlier song.
Stop dissing my cooking — I worked hard on that meal.
A note on using this word
"Dissing" emerged from hip-hop culture in the 1980s as a shortened form of "disrespecting" and has since become mainstream informal slang.
Words with a similar meaning
insultingdisrespecting
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Words with an opposite meaning
praisingcomplimenting
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