Ratchetness

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being ratchet. US, derogatory, slang, uncountable

    "The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing."

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"The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing."

Etymology

From ratchet + -ness.

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