Waywardsamurai opened this issue on Aug 26, 2008 ยท 46 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 05 September 2008 at 5:39 PM
You got the first one right. "Dude" is California surfer slang for "Man".
"Word to your mother" means "I'm telling you the truth, my friend" or "that's the truth". Popularized by Vanilla Ice. Word is the truth, and this means even more so (i.e., I wouldn't lie to your mother, man).
Since then, it has been reduced to the single "Word".
So, "Dude, Word" means, "Man, that's the truth!"
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