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goo  ·  3533 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What was the last word you learned?

I am ashamed to say this, as everyone has posted such lovely arcane words, but: "ratchet"

My younger cousin recently said it to me, in the form of "That's sooo ratchet!" or something. It's a wrench? What are you trying to communicate here?

I was super confused, like the old fogey I am (guess that happens upon graduating high school). Someone explained it as basically being a twisted version of "wretched," indicating poor quality. Alrighty then.

I'll have to figure out how to adroitly fit my favourite recently learned word into this discussion.