slay

To do exceptionally well; also an all-purpose affirmation. Appeared in a high-street bank's onboarding flow in 2024 and survived it, which almost nothing does.

Performed superbly, with no crumbs left. Sometimes extended to 'ate and left no crumbs', which is the same thing said by someone who has not.

Did it perfectly, with nothing left to criticise — 'ate' with an emphasis. From stan and drag vocabulary into the mainstream in 2023, used about pop stars, outfits and, eventually, a colleague's spreadsheet.

Exaggerated, theatrical, knowingly too much — camp — a century-old word from queer culture that the internet rediscovered in 2019 when a fashion gala made it a theme and everyone argued about what it meant. The record's entry for the oldest word in the file that is still being defined.

A twenty-one-month tour that moved the economy of every city it visited, produced a film, a friendship-bracelet trade, a seismograph reading, and the phrase 'Eras Tour' as a unit of scale. The record's entry for a concert as an era, which it named itself.

A period of failure, announced with acceptance — 'I'm in my flop era' — from stan Twitter's habit of dividing careers into eras to everyone's habit of dividing their lives the same way. The record's entry for the bad patch as a branding decision.

'I'm in my [anything] era' — the phrase that turned every mood into a chapter: villain era, healing era, soup era. From stan vocabulary to universal by 2023, when a tour was named after the idea. The record's entry for the self as a discography.

Evokes, resembles, has the energy of. Can be finished with any noun or with nothing, which makes it the most flexible sentence fragment in use.