samefag
samefag noun: someone who replies to their own post on 4chan or similar imageboards pretending to be a different user.
Noun
samefag (plural samefags)
- Someone who replies to their own post on 4chan or similar imageboards pretending to be a different user.
- The board (or possibly just a samefag?) had spoken: Tao Lin had won.2014, The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 448
- One early adaptation, for example, which appeared on 4chan in 2012, adds only the homophobic slur "SAMEFAG" to the image—a term commonly used on 4chan to denote a person on the site who creates multiple posts by pretending to be multiple people.[2021, Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Ariel Gratch, Digital Performance in Everyday Life, Abington, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, unnumbered page
Verb
samefag (third-person singular simple present samefags, present participle samefagging, simple past and past participle samefagged)
- To reply to one's own post on 4chan, pretending to be a different user.
Forms of samefag
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | samefags |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | samefags |
| present participle | samefagging |
| past participle | samefagged |
| past | samefagged |
Origin of samefag
From same + -fag.
Questions about samefag
- What does samefag mean?
- Samefag means someone who replies to their own post on 4chan or similar imageboards pretending to be a different user.
- What part of speech is samefag?
- Samefag can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of samefag?
- The plural of samefag is samefags.
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