dank meme
- noun
- /dæŋk miːm/
- Slang
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meme de calidad
- No, dank memes are like super good memes.
Examples
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He is known for creating dank memes that often go viral on social media.
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The group shared several dank memes that had everyone laughing during the chat.
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I always look forward to his posts because they include the funniest dank memes.
Synonyms
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An image, video, or text shared online and changed by many people to be funny
A picture or short video with a joke that people share online
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Given that the learner knows 'dank' in its slang sense (very funny/ironic/high-quality) and 'meme' (an item of digital content), the phrase is a simple adjective+noun composition meaning a meme that is 'dank'. Although the slang sense of 'dank' is informal and historically non-literal, the MWE's meaning is directly derivable from its constituents, so it is transparent to learners who know those word senses.
Etymology
Dank meme comes from the old word dank, which meant 'wet and musty' and later became slang for something 'very strong', and meme meaning a shared online idea. So calling something a dank meme gives the image of a strong, strange, or very funny 'online joke'.