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dank meme

dank meme noun: an Internet meme with a humorously tongue-in-cheek tone derived from gaudy or surreal aesthetics.

Noun

dank meme (plural dank memes)

  1. (Internet, ironic, often, slang) An Internet meme with a humorously tongue-in-cheek tone derived from gaudy or surreal aesthetics.
    • Born too late to explore the Earth; born too soon to explore the galaxy; born just in time to browse dank memes
    • I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky. If I tried to speak your marvellous language, I would produce sentences like, […]2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN
  2. (Internet, derogatory, slang) A usually overused meme, especially one which is overly ironic or offensive; a meme which is popular among unfavorable circles.

Forms of dank meme

pluraldank memes

Origin of dank meme

From dank (“awesome”) + meme.

Questions about dank meme

What does dank meme mean?
Dank meme means an Internet meme with a humorously tongue-in-cheek tone derived from gaudy or surreal aesthetics.
What part of speech is dank meme?
Dank meme is a noun.
What is the plural of dank meme?
The plural of dank meme is dank memes.

Words near dank meme in the dictionary

  1. Danization
  2. Danjiangkou
  3. danjiri
  4. dank
  5. dank chronic
  6. dank meme
  7. dank memes
  8. danked
  9. danken
  10. Dankenbring
  11. dankened

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