What the F is a “Glizzy?”
I know now that a “Glizzy” is Gen X rap slang for a hot dog and that its use has become very widespread.
They call it a “glizzy” because glizzy is slang for a Glock handgun and the Glock’s magazine supposedly looks like a hot dog.
How that translated into such widespread use of the term by young people is beyond me? Evidently the name got a boost when a female entrant into the Coney Island hot dog eating contest called herself “Glizzy Lizzy.”
Today the Merriam-Webster dictionary even defines “glizzy” as “a frankfurter…aka a hot dog.”
It further says “the phallic aspects of a pistol led to gkizzy being used for both hot dogs and…penises.”
People can call hot dogs what they want. I’m going to keep calling them hot dogs.