It’s just simply a mispronunciation of “wretched”. All she could say was, You know, grandma, it’s just rachet! -cat I have heard my teen-aged granddaughter use this word in reference to her own hair, and she was completely unable to define it or explain what she meant by it. Ratchet means: ghetto, stupid, rediculous, cheap -selena It is used as a term for something low class or deteriorated. Ratchet also means a situation or process that is perceived to be deteriorating or changing steadily in a series of irreversible steps. Ratchet used to describe someone means nasty, ghetto or trifling. What does 'ratchet' mean, and how is it pronounced?
From them I learned the following things about ratchet. Corsetti but the commenters responding to her post. Without attempting to be exhaustive, I took my frog egg search to the least professional-looking authority I could easily find-which turned out to be Caitlin Corsetti’s “ Define That: Ratchet” blog post at -and then consulted not Ms. This, I suspect, is because it emerges not like Athene-a fully formed adult released from the mind of Zeus-but like several thousand frog eggs-similar in appearance to one another but bewildering in number and neither well defined nor mature.Įventually usage of a slang term X will probably coalesce around one or a few more-or-less clearly understood meanings, but in the meantime the only reasonable way to answer questions such as “what does X mean?” is to identify as many of the ways in which the word is being used as you can. When a slang word catches on, students of language often have a difficult time figuring out its meanings and origin.
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