to cancel
45
8.0
- verb
- /ˈkænsl/
- Slang
:
cancelar (a alguien)
- On social media, many people decided to cancel the celebrity after they made controversial statements.
But it didn't it didn't cancel Kevin Hart.
- But it didn't it didn't cancel Kevin Hart.
- When and if to cancel a genius?
- You saw it with Netflix in response to the Cancel Chappelle campaign.
- And in some cases, people attempted to cancel them for calling for respect.
- I thought that the attempt to basically cancel Joe Rogan was outrageous.
- Charlie Demello was cancelled by the squish squish Malo.
- I don't look all even all my friends who have gotten cancelled are doing arenas.
- No one's tried to cancel me in my work so far.
- Ask Katie Hopkins, who's still being cancelled at venues.
- Oh my we would get cancelled so fast for a group chat.
- Yet there's there's a move to simply cancel folks.
- And they, they are canceling comedy because they don't want to laugh.
- I was part of the club cancelling the brand.
- What's the guy that's just been cancelled for not not Kano?
Examples
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No one's tried to cancel me in my work so far.
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Oh, who's been a victim of cancel culture?
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It's a good question in general with the cancel culture, right?
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And then more largely speaking, cancel culture and where we are today.
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Yeah, I, I do want to talk about cancel culture, I think.
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And in some cases, people attempted to cancel them for calling for respect.
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Are you tryin' to get canceled?
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I thought that the attempt to basically cancel Joe Rogan was outrageous.
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Share your experience of being cancelled and just, like, pivot that combo to the plant book.
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You're canceled.
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How Supported
- US
31
7.7
- Slang
45
8.0
- Texting
68
4.6
701
3.3
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the modern slang cancel is to think of crossing a name out of a list; it comes from the basic idea 'to stop or remove'. So to cancel a public figure is to withdraw support and try to remove their place in a community.