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Dictionary.com reveals '67' is its 2025 Word of the Year (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn't "6 7" supposed to be a rating? Somebody does something and you rate it mid by giving it a 6 or maybe a 7 on a scale of 10. Why on earth would this semantic meaning come from a basketball player's height?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 21 hours ago

No, it's from a rap song, but almost everybody doesn't have the context. Just tell the middle-school kids that it really means a 10-67, that at least for the rapper's local police codes, means they found a dead body.

All of the other theories are made up.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 23 hours ago

No. It’s just “6-7”. It is not supposed to be a rating or something with actual meaning at all. It’s just a pattern.