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# diss

«diss» in Mova's school dictionary: **to show them disrespect, by insulting them or saying…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (diss, disses, dissed, dissing) — slang; noun (a diss, disses — slang)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (slang) To diss someone means to show them disrespect, by insulting them or saying unkind things about them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#m1)

2) (slang, noun) A diss is an insult, especially in a rap song (a diss track). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday talk among teenagers it means being rude or unkind: «Don't diss my football team». It comes from hip hop slang in the USA in the 1980s and is a clipped form of «disrespect». In lessons about kindness online, dissing people is a form of being mean. Phrases: «diss someone», «a diss track».

### examples

- Don't diss my trainers, they're new! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x1)
- He dissed the other team after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x2)
- That rapper released a diss track about his rival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x3)
- Stop dissing your little brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x4)
- She felt dissed when nobody said hello. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x5)
- Was that a diss or a joke? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x6)
- It's not cool to diss people online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/#x7)

### note

Slang, informal; do not use in a school essay. Also spelled «dis». Double s in the past form: dissed, dissing. Short for «disrespect». Not related to the prefix «dis-» in words like «disagree», though it comes from the same part of «disrespect».

### In the corpora

- [dis- means not or the opposite: disagree, dislike, disrespect; the slang «diss» comes from «disrespect».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diss» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diss/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.