top kek
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From top + kek; coined by 4chan in 2013 as an intentional catachresis of Turkish Topkek, a brand of cupcake, which was posted to the imageboard as a variant of the then-popular Top Gun hat internet meme.
Interjection
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]top kek (not comparable)
- (predicative, Internet slang) highly amusing
- 2018 March 21, Cecilia D'Anastasio, “What's Really Going On With All Those Hacked Fortnite Accounts”, in Kotaku[1]:
- Hackers I interviewed say that’s because security for Epic Games’ software is, in John’s words, “top kek.”
- Liz Sommer (2018 August 14) “kek + top kek”, in STAYHIPP[2], retrieved 25 May 2019
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