Thanos-snap
verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To make (something) suddenly disappear. informal
"If we Thanos-snapped Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, O'Rourke, Yang, Klobuchar, Castro, Bennet, Bullock, Delaney, Gabbard, Ryan, Williamson, Steyer, and De Blasio out of existence, here's what the field would look like, according to the polls we've conducted this summer: […]"
Example
More examples"If we Thanos-snapped Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, O'Rourke, Yang, Klobuchar, Castro, Bennet, Bullock, Delaney, Gabbard, Ryan, Williamson, Steyer, and De Blasio out of existence, here's what the field would look like, according to the polls we've conducted this summer: […]"
Etymology
A reference to the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War, in which the character Thanos turns half the population of the universe into dust by snapping his fingers.
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