gross out
(informal, mostly, North America) Something which sickens, causes distress, or appalls by reason of being disgusting, gory, or repulsive.
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The 90s and 00s had a lot of gross out humor, and fatness can be seen as gross so that's probably the reasoning behind at least half of such scenes from back then.
An under discussed element of this is how harassment mobs aim to make the person say something gross out of anger/spite/negative radicalization just so that they can justify it post hoc.
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(informal, mostly, North America) Something which sickens, causes distress, or appalls by reason of being disgusting, gory, or repulsive.
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(informal, transitive, mostly, North America) To sicken or distress (someone) by being disgusting, gory, or lewd.
“The 90s and 00s had a lot of gross out humor, and fatness can be seen as gross so that's probably the reasoning behind at least half of such scenes from back then.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“An under discussed element of this is how harassment mobs aim to make the person say something gross out of anger/spite/negative radicalization just so that they can justify it post hoc.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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