AAVE-influenced respelling of "trigger" — often used as a term of address among friends ("my trigga") or as a stylized form of "n***a" replacement in hip-hop lyrics and casual speech.
AAVE-influenced respelling of "trigger" — often used as a term of address among friends ("my trigga") or as a stylized form of "n***a" replacement in hip-hop lyrics and casual speech.
What's good, trigga?
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Slang from Black American Vernacular English (AAVE), hip-hop, drag and ballroom culture, the Caribbean, and NYC street vocabulary. The single largest source of new mainstream English slang in living memory.
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Originally a clinical term for a trauma response; now used loosely (often pejoratively) to describe someone reacting strongly to something. Has become a culture-war flashpoint, where deploying "triggered" mockingly is itself politically marked.
(now, chiefly, AAVE) Good-for-nothing; shady or lazy; scrub.
(metaphor, US) Any unstable situation.
(Internet slang) An instance of giving someone an extremely bizarre or cringeworthy name, especially one that is a fanciful respelling of a more common name.
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An event that initiates others, or incites a response.