(nonstandard, internet slang) To be able to have.
(nonstandard, internet slang) To be able to have.
If I go to the office, Joe can haz my porpoise if he wants.
"can haz" means: To be able to have.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"can haz" means: To be able to have.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
"can haz" means: To be able to have.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
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(text messaging) have.
Compound of the modal "can" plus the Singlish particle "lah" — meaning "of course it can", "yes, go ahead", or "yeah sure, no problem". Used as a confident, slightly impatient agreement when someone asks whether something is possible or allowed. Tone matters: a relaxed "can lah" is friendly reassurance; a clipped "can lah!" can mean "stop asking, just do it". Often used to wave off excessive politeness — "Can I borrow this?" "Can lah, take." Functionally similar to British English "yeah, course you can".
(slang, euphemistic) To be unwilling to; to not have the desire of; to don’t want to.
(nonstandard) had to.
“today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit — Piss-Drunk Pete can haz opinion."U.S. mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz will be temporary, Hegseth says" I don't even know what that means, 'temporary.' I thought Donny was blowing Iran off the face of the earth.”
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