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Or perhaps a prospect who might one day hold such a lofty position. Say, for instance, you post a picture of you on a yacht with Beyonce and you just so happen to be Jay-Z. There is no doubt that more people are encountering this word and wondering what it means, as evinced by this handy chart from Google Trends:.

Totally untrue. Others argue that bae is simply a shortened version of babe , which would similarly account for the rare ae juxtapostion. When cool gets old, there is coo. But that is changing. The latest example comes from Dictionary. Now within Dictionary. That layered phrase exemplifies just how complex this endeavor is, a fact that is not lost on the team. It took painstaking research to produce.

It is also inevitably incomplete. There are whole think pieces dedicated to the nuances of the phrase, tussling with whether it operates as commentary on climate change or a retort to out-of-touch parents or an ageist slur or maybe all those things — and how that changed as it went from being cool to overused to cool again, in a meta way that involves early users being aware of its overuse and picking it up again in part to mock the popularity they predated.

But there is also a need the company is addressing in attempting to fill the gap between the crowdsourced chaff of Urban Dictionary and painstaking definitive-ness of the Oxford English Dictionary. There are hashtags. If you watched the Olympics and were on Twitter, you likely know that comedian Leslie Jones was posting her own commentary.

More recently, it has acquired the meaning "exciting," as well as a broader meaning along the lines of "excellent. The slang lit has a long history. We walked into the vamp's house. We all got lit and had a hell of a time. This particular use of lit comes from the original use of lit to refer to something that is illumined or has light shining on it from the past tense of the verb light. Rap has also given us a new meaning of lit.

In the last ten or so years, lit has transitioned from being applied to the act of intoxicating "gonna get lit" to the environment of those who are lit "party's lit". This extended meaning of lit is a favorite on social media like Twitter:.