ho

n

a.

a female prostitute, promiscuous and/or immoral woman

b.

a female

The southern US and Afro-Caribbean pro-nunciation of whore became one of the best-known items of hip hop and rappers' slang, moving, like many pejorative terms in transgressive subcultures, to take on first ironic, then straightforwardly neutral or appreciative connotations before cross-ing over into the generalised slang of ado-lescents in all English-speaking areas.