"Glizzy" is the internet's favored term for hot dogs, which first arose around the late 1990s, originally starting as a piece of hip-hop slang for a Glock handgun.

The addition of "-izzy" may have been linked to the rise of the "-izzle" suffix in rap around the late 1990s. By the year 2000, "glizzy" was on the lips of rappers like Big Pun.

Using glizzy in reference to hot dogs began around Washington, D.C. A hot dog is a similar length to an extended magazine for a pistol, but there's more to the story than that.

In 2014, a young rapper from D.C. caught the internet's attention named Marquis Amonte King, who went by the moniker $hy Glizzy. He was the frontman of the group the Glizzy Gang.

"Glizzy" became indelibly linked to hot dogs shortly after the Glizzy Gang began. In 2017, it appeared in Urban Dictionary with the definition, "Another word for a hotdog in D.C."

Glizzy gained widespread use in the summer of 2020 as a trend on TikTok. Eventually, food content creators picked up on the trend, unleashing glizzy recipe videos.