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Verb

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jam one's hype (third-person singular simple present jams one's hype, present participle jamming one's hype, simple past and past participle jammed one's hype)

  1. (MLE, often imperative) Calm down.
    • 2009, Atiha Sen Gupta, What Fatima Did:
      CRAIG: Jam your hype Miss.
    • 2014, Charlie Higson, The Fear:
      You need to jam your hype and tell your boydem to stand down. They making me uncomfortable. Then we all just shake hands, sit down somewhere cosy like and have a nice civilized chat.

References

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  • Tony Thorne (2014) “jam your hype”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  []: Bloomsbury