an hero
/æn ˈhɪəɹəʊ/
an hero verb: to commit suicide.
Verb
an hero (third-person singular simple present an heros or an heroes, present participle an heroing, simple past and past participle an heroed)
- To commit suicide.
- So an hero already.2009 May 9, henri, “Re: NOMINATION - Bill Jillians/"<p>sychotic <c>hicken" For KotM & CotM .. (was) Re: hey guys ... anyone want in on a flame war I'm starting between 2 groups”, in...
- It soon became a trend on 4chan to describe someone as “an hero”—before it morphed into the verb form: “I'm going to an hero.”2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, published 2012, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- commit die
Noun
an hero (plural an heroes or an heros)
- A suicidee; one who commits suicide.
- In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet)
- Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)
Examples of an hero in a sentence
- So I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.2013, Trevor James Zaple, chapter 1, in Disappearance, Lulu, published 2013, →ISBN:
- I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):
Synonyms of an hero
Forms of an hero
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | an heros |
| third-person singular present | an heroes |
| present participle | an heroing |
| past participle | an heroed |
| past | an heroed |
| alternative form | anhero |
| Noun | |
| plural | an heroes |
| plural | an heros |
Origin of an hero
Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.
Questions about an hero
- What does an hero mean?
- An hero means to commit suicide.
- How do you use an hero in a sentence?
- So I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.
- What part of speech is an hero?
- An hero can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce an hero?
- An hero is pronounced /æn ˈhɪəɹəʊ/.
- What is the past tense of an hero?
- The past tense of an hero is an heroed.
Words near an hero in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: an hero (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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