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What is a meme, and what do the most popular memes actually mean? We heard you ask, so we created the ultimate meme dictionary to make sense of it all!
The word “meme” is both a noun and a verb, and it’s taken the Internet by storm in recent years. Open any social media profile, and you’re bound to see one. But where do memes come from? Is there a way to tell who was the very first person to put words on a photo of Chef Gordon Ramsey or turn some lines into a heart rate that spread all over Twitter? Take a look through our meme meanings to find out just where they came from and how long they’ve been around.
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meme coin
A meme coin is a cryptocurrency that is…
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stonks
In internet slang, stonks is a deliberate misspelling of…
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What are those?!
Your shoes, dude! What are those?! Reaching meme…
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hot girl summer
Live your best life! Hot girl summer is…
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meme stock
A meme stock is a stock (the kind…
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white boy summer
White boy summer is a phrase created and…
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Leeroy Jenkins
Leeroy Jenkins is gaming slang for a person…
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This is fine
Based on a webcomic of an anthropomorphic dog…
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Baby Yoda
Baby Yoda is the popular name for a…