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youngblood en · NOUN

Etymology

From young + blood.

Meanings

1. Someone who constitutes or brings fresh blood, especially a youngster who joins an older team etc.
2. A young black gangster.
   • Born in 1971, he [Snoop Dogg] grew up in Long Beach with an absent biological father and a strict mother, and though his childhood was happy, he recalls everything coming to a halt in 1987. "I was too old to be a youngblood anymore, and too young to be able to take charge of my game," he remembered. 2021, Eric Harvey, Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality, page 207:

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