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Glizzy is a slang term for "hot dog." In June 2020, some online applied the term to images of people eating hot dogs, referring to them as "Glizzy Gladiators" if the picture's subject can fit a large section of the hot dog in their mouth.

Origin

The origins of the term is unknown and existed in various reigons around the US, including Washington, DC and Alabama prior to appearing online^[4]. One of the earliest references to "glizzy" as a hot dog comes from YouTuber Azel Prather, who posted a video describing the different types of "glizzys" on October 24th, 2016.

Alternate Definiton

Others use the term "glizzy" as a slang word for Glock handgun. On January 12th, 2015, Urban Dictionary ^[1] user DMVEVERYTHING defined the word, "A glock variant.Slang used in the hoods of DC. Also well known because of the rapper group Glizzy Gang, There CEO is Shy Glizzy." The post received more than 340 upvotes in less than six years (shown below).

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The following year, on September 24th, 2017, Urban Dictionary^[1] user Dmv_lingo defined the phrase, "Another word for a hotdog in DC." The post received more than 170 upvotes in less than three years (shown below, left).

On July 4th, 2019, Twitter^[3] user @vashti_adena tweeted, "Ever since I learned DC niggas call hot dogs glizzys I can’t get over the fact that a DC rapper really named himself a Shy Hotdog." The tweet included a retweet of a video of "Glizzys all over the world." The post received more than 45,000 likes and 14,000 retweets in less than one year (shown below).

Ever since I learned DC niggas call hot dogs glizzys I can’t get over the fact that a DC rapper really named himself a Shy Hotdog https://t.co/Som2SOiRuV

— Vash (@vashti_adena) July 5, 2019

Glizzy Gladiator

On June 13th, 2020, Facebook^[2] user Roderick Smith posted a picture of a man eating a hot dog. They captioned the post, "pops wasting no time to throat the glizzy 😩🌭 he a real glizzy gladiator." The post received more than 10,000 shares, 3,000 reactions and 2,000 comments in less than one month (shown below, left).

That day, Twitter user @SirPercules tweeted the image with the caption, "Nigga told me my uncle was throating a glizzy nd da whip I told him send me a pic nd I got this…." The tweet received more than 8,200 likes and 1,100 retweets in less than one month (shown below, right).

On June 27th, 2020, Twitter^[5] user @VampireSilk posted a picture of Vice President Joe Biden eating a hot dog. They wrote, "Nah Biden gotta address this at a press conference or sumin bro a real glizzy guzzler." The post received more than 7,500 likes and 1,300 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

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