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a tiny word that means victory, voiceover, weed, and turning the bass into a religion
means To name or christen something or someone (often with a tap of a sword, as in knighthood), or to add a new soundtrack or dialogue to a recording — and in slang, a win, a portion of cannabis, or a style of reggae remix.
from The knighting sense comes from Old English 'dubbian,' meaning to make a knight by striking with a sword, likely borrowed from Old French 'adober' (to equip or arm) — a word of uncertain deeper roots. The audio sense is a 20th-century clipping of 'double,' as in duplicating or overlaying a soundtrack; reggae 'dub' grew from that studio sense in Jamaica. The slang 'dub' for a win is newer still, often traced to the letter W (for 'win').
- reggae roots
- Jamaican studios invented it by stripping vocals and drowning rests in echo
- the W
- slang for win, literally just saying the letter aloud
- knighthood
- to dub means to tap shoulders and make a knight
- film trade
- replacing dialogue in another language is dubbing
dub reggae — jamaican music genre pioneered by king tubby and lee perry in the 1970s kingston
dub techno — electronic music style developed in berlin by basic channel in the 1990s
dub poetry — performance art form created by jamaican poets like linton kwesi johnson in 1970s-80s