Steez
A 1980s hip-hop and skate-culture term meaning effortless personal style, blending 'style' and 'ease,' revived by Gen Z in the mid-2020s.
Definition
Steez describes a unique, confident personal style that looks effortless rather than forced — a blend of 'style' and 'ease.' It can describe an outfit, a skate trick, or someone's overall demeanor, and functions as both a noun ('you know my steez') and an adjective ('that trick was pure steez').
History
Steez originated in Black American and hip-hop slang in the early 1980s, with an early recorded use in Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's 1982 track 'It's Nasty (Genius of Love)' and further popularized by Gang Starr's 1998 song 'You Know My Steez.' The term also took root independently in skateboarding and snowboarding culture to describe smooth, stylish tricks, and saw a fresh wave of TikTok popularity among Gen Z in the mid-2020s.
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Examples
- “"That skater has so much steez"”
- “"You know my steez" as a boast about one's personal style”
- “Complimenting an outfit with a simple "steez"”
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References
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