730

English

Etymology

A reference to article 730 of the New York Criminal Procedure Law, which outlines procedures for the involuntary confinement of mentally incapacitated defendants. Equivalent to 5150 in California slang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.vən.ˈθɝti/

Adjective

730 (comparative more 730, superlative most 730)

1. (New York, slang) Crazy, insane.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane

   He's going to go completely 730 when he finds out what we did.

   • 1994 December 6, “B.B.S.”, in Non-Fiction‎^[2], performed by Black Sheep:

     Keeping it real with appeal, I gets filthy like I'm dirty / Straight up and down, you'll say that them's the niggas, seven-thirty

   • 2007, Danielle Santiago, Little Ghetto Girl, New York, N.Y. […]: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 29:

     When Sincere heard that, he went seven thirty.

   • 2009 July 17, “A History of Real-Life "Fight Club" Copycats”, in Complex‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Complex Networks, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-01:

     As crazy as that sounds, it's not the first time some overly obsessive, completely 730 Chuck Palahniuk fans have sought to recreate the mayhem from his Fight Club novel that was later made into a movie by David Fincher.

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “730 adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• “7:30”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.
• “Ready For Some Regional Rap Slang?”, in Dictionary.com‎^[4], 2018 March 29, archived from the original on 2024-01-10
• “Ebonics”, performed by Big L, 1998: “If you 730, that mean you crazy”