an hero
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.[1]
Verb[edit]
an hero (third-person singular simple present an heros, present participle an heroing, simple past and past participle an heroed) (intransitive)
- (Internet slang) To commit suicide.
- 2013, Trevor James Zaple, chapter 1, in Disappearance, Lulu, published 2013, →ISBN:
- So I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.
Descendants[edit]
- → Finnish: sankaroitua (calque)
- → Polish: bohatyrnąć (calque)
Translations[edit]
to commit suicide (internet slang)
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Noun[edit]
an hero (plural an heroes or an heros)
- (Internet slang) A suicidee; one who commits suicide.
- 2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday[3] (Usenet):
- In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:an hero.
References[edit]
- ^ Mattathias Schwartz, "The Trolls Among Us", The New York Times, 3 August 2008