In 2018, Drake also released a song “Ratchet Happy Birthday” on Side B of his Scorpion album. They also noted that the hip-hop slang developed positive connotations, like cool or fierce.Ĭomedy duo Emmanuel and Phillip Hudson released a 2013 video titled “Ratchet Girl Anthem,” where the pair impersonate two, classless ratchet girls judging other ratchets. Many in the media called 2012 the year of the ratchet. ” In 2012, Nicki Minaj used it on her “Right By Side” as did Juicy J on his “Bandz a Make Her Dance” and LL Cool J on his “Ratchet”: “She’s so ratchet, she’s so ratchet / But she’s so bad we could throw cash at it.” Ratchet was notably used by Rapper Lil Boosie in his 2005 song “Do Da Ratchet. It was especially used for a woman considered promiscuous or trashy. Franz Hoeff, of Vienna, are constructing a five-ton rocket ship in which they hope to reach the moon in two days.Ratchet may have originated in Shreveport, Louisiana, lovingly nicknamed Ratchet City. Rappers from there were using ratchet in songs since the late 1990s, based on a regional pronunciation of wretched. Another theory for its origin is that ratchet comes from ratchet up, or “bringing something up in intensity.”Ĭalling someone ratchet has historically meant you think they have no class and lack a proper upbringing but they don’t know it (e.g., trashy). That such a feat is considered within the range of possibility is evidenced by the activities of scientists in Europe as well as in America. Rocket science in the figurative sense of "difficult, complex process or topic" is attested by 1985 rocket scientist is from 1952.
Originally of fireworks rockets, the meaning "device propelled by a rocket engine" is recorded by 1919 (Goddard) rocket-ship in the space-travel sense is attested from February 1927 ("Popular Science") earlier as a type of naval warship firing projectiles. The Italian word probably is from a Germanic source (compare Old High German rocko "distaff," Middle Dutch rokke, Old Norse rokkr), from Proto-Germanic *rukkon- (from PIE root *rug- "fabric, spun yarn"). 1610s, "projectile consisting of a cylindrical tube of pasteboard filled with flammable or explosive matter," from Italian rocchetto "a rocket," literally "a bobbin," diminutive of rocca "a distaff," so called because of cylindrical shape.
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