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Definitions of words that have changed over time...

I'd say that happens even if we don't realize it. I'd also say there is a reason those definitions are changed/altered.
I often think it'd be nice to have it noted when a definition is changed and to know what it used to be as well.
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Thedoorislocked Best Comment
There’s a song “Back When” and some of the lyrics:

“ Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu”
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@Thedoorislocked That's a really good example... and a song I had forgotten...
@SW-User my Own Kind of Hat by Merle Haggard some lyrics. On a roll lol.

“ There's two kind of lovers and two kind of brothers,
And two kind of babies to hold.
There's two kind of cherries and two kind of fairies,
And two kind of mothers I'm told, and told”

Jill1990 · 31-35, F
How about gun. This is not meant to be political, but it used to mean something that your fired from your shoulder after stuffing all that stuff in there with a rod (not meant to be sexual either). Now it’s anything that you can carry that is not designed to shoot down a plane.
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@Jill1990 Hmmm.. improvements on guns makes the difference? I'm no expert in this. I am just going with the idea things are improved upon but the definition stays the same?
Redstar · 36-40, M
I hate it. These days, you could ask 5 people what a word means and get 5 different answers and be lucky if even one of them is the real definition. On top of that, words that [i]actually [/i]mean those things already exist, so why not just use them?
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@Redstar Yep.... a whole world full of different meanings to words than use to be... or definitions changed to fit what others wish a word to mean now.
Manfretthemanic · 16-17, M
Yes. A lot of kids my age use words for different meanings sometimes. It's a little confusing. People use the word "literally" wrong all the time.
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@Manfretthemanic Glad to see you again. :) As for "literally"... going to have to look it up and see what you mean... literally! lol
Manfretthemanic · 16-17, M
@SW-User A girl in my class said "I am literally dead."
She wasn't. 😂
I was here before too. I just have a new account now because I have a new phone.
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Take the word plough for instance it once meant plough the fields and later meat fuck the fields and so on 🤦‍♂️ Lol
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All the same ,all good to 👌. Lol @SW-User
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@SW-User As to your example... yep! I've seen that!
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You ain’t seen nothin yet 🤭@SW-User
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@Max13 Native American isn't my term. When I was a teen, I grew up around Indians...which we are now told to call Native Americans.
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Star1 · F
Yes, Gay comes to mind, when did that change?
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@Star1 Yep. I think that one has more than one definition now..not just changed without a side note?
The definitions get altered to satisfy the needs of the user. Connotations of a word take the place of the original definition. Take, for example, the original definition of the word, "nice." (Taken from an old Oxford, Universal dictionary.)

Agreed. I see all kinds of people using the term “woke” who have no clue where the term comes from and in what context it was originally used. It’s slang, but it’s not new.
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