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CancerTok

CancerTok proper noun: the community of cancer patients on TikTok.

Proper noun

CancerTok

  1. (Internet) The community of cancer patients on TikTok.
    • In the process, she's built a loyal following in a corner of the Internet known as #CancerTok, where millions of users candidly open up every day about their own experiences with the disease.2022 August 21, Kaitlin Stanford, “Woman Discovers Stage 4 Breast Cancer After Being Told She Was 'Too Young' for a Mammogram”, in mom.com, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023

Origin of CancerTok

From cancer + -Tok.

Questions about CancerTok

What does CancerTok mean?
CancerTok means the community of cancer patients on TikTok.
What part of speech is CancerTok?
CancerTok is a proper noun.

Words near CancerTok in the dictionary

  1. cancerphobe
  2. cancerphobes
  3. cancerphobia
  4. cancerphobic
  5. cancers
  6. CancerTok
  7. cancervative
  8. cancervatives
  9. cancerweed
  10. cancerwort
  11. canch

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