Wish.com

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy. Internet, attributive, derogatory, slang

    "When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of."

Example

More examples

"When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of."

Etymology

From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).

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