noun an idiot. Adopted into hip-hop, urban usage from subtly insulting Hindi sala – the literal sense of which is 'a man's wife's brother'; the abusive sense is 'to someone who is not the speaker's wife's brother: the insult lies in the implication that the sister of the person abused is available to the speaker as a wife' (Nigel Hankin, Hanklyn Janklyn, 2003) US, 2003