• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I don’t even know what “based” means, but I’m sure the asshole used it wrong.

    • Nils@lemmy.ca
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      11 days ago

      Nowadays, I think it means “agreeable”. “I agree with this”.

      It is a term that changed a lot in such a short time. I remember it was a way to call a drug addict, like crackhead/basehead. Then it changed to call people talking nonsense, like they were on crack.

      I imagine, at some point, someone agreed with the crackhead talk and read some comment of the nonsense being called “based”.