Meaning

3 senses

  1. Acknowledged

  2. Expressing distaste, alarm, or trepidation.

  3. (offensive)Mocking a transgender person by imitating the sound of choking during a suicide by hanging, evoking the notion that transgender people frequently commit suicide.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. "The old lady of this shop is very unsociable but ..." "Taiki, I can hear you!" "Ack!"

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Origin

Clipping of acknowledged. Imitative. Etymology 2, interjection sense 2 is first attested

Clipping of acknowledged.

Imitative. Etymology 2, interjection sense 2 is first attested in the latter part of September, 2021 on /qa/ - Question & Answer, from which it appears to have originated.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
acidB2acidicC1acidificationacidityacknowledgeB1acknowledgmentB1acmeacne

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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