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◐ Dying adj. 10 yrs & counting Slang

Snatched

Looking extremely good, tightly — 'snatched' — from drag vocabulary into the beauty internet by 2016, where it described a waist, a wig or a face, and by 2018 anything sharp. The record's entry for the compliment with a corset in it.

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Drag and ballroom vocabulary; YouTube beauty, 2016
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NOW · 2026

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Memory @archive_dot_org · Archivist 24 Sep 2020

My first sighting was 2016, in a reply from someone I have never met, and I understood it immediately. That is the closest thing to magic the internet still does.

Definition @stan_twitter_stu · Poster 6 Oct 2017

The record notes 'snatched' is drag slang about wigs being pulled off, that the meaning inverted somewhere between 2010 and 2016, and that both meanings are still in use, confusingly.

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