by Bape is expensive March 19, 2018
Short for Bathing Apes - clothes that are only worn by rappers and people who make more money than professional rich people. Worn almost exclusively by rich black people who want to flash their swag, and rich rappers who won't settle for less. Worn by Pharell and more expensive than my first daughters wedding.
by D Dizzle Daddy January 16, 2008
Bape or A Bathing Ape is a Japanese clothing line originally founded by Tomoaki "Nigo" Nagao in 1993.
It was soon butchered by the likes of rappers like Soulja Boy when he released his album which included the song "Bapes".
Gay wangster: Man, I jus' got myself some bapes.
Friend: Shieeet, fo' real?
Japanese/American that actually knows a thing or two about hip-hop unlike some fakeass rapper: *nods head* your never gonna survive kid.
by omegaultima August 20, 2008
A tacky overpriced fashion by some guy named Nigo in Japan. Bape caught on around the mid 2000s around 2005-2006 in America mainly because it was spearheaded and shown off by guys like Lil Wayne, Pharrell and the whole Hyphy movement. Bape also spawned a fashion that's dead now thankfully and spawned a many imitators using the overdone design atheistic as Bape, on hoodies, shirts, and other shit and sold for less than Bape, to people who couldn't afford it or simply lived in cities with no stores that sold it(almost every American city that's not L.A. or New-York).
Bape further proves that if you slap rarity, a high price, and put the only stores that sell it in famous cities know for status(New-York, Los Angeles, Tokyo) that you can get a few status obsessed assholes with the money to blow to buy something that's just ugly, like most clothing items that cost money, just overdone with a label on every inch of the clothing.
Bape is only supported now by rich hypebeast who want to be urban in the suburbs. Even then, you may find it rare to find a hypebeast who still wants Bape.
by RolphSemensDickOvensUWIDI March 12, 2011
A Japanese clothing company that makes ugly clothes that look like pajamas. They are ridiculously priced, and bought by spoiled rich kids because terrible rap artists like Pharrell, Lil Wayne, and Young Jeezy wear them. If you wear this brand of clothing, you are nothing but a mainstream trend follower robot.
by zetox August 27, 2006
by BathingApe671 April 26, 2013
A more "polite" word for lame
coming from a crowd from a diversity and acceptance camp
instead of calling someone or something lame or dumb you call it "bape"
by Irish lady potato farmer August 10, 2009