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Wish.com

noun

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).

Definitions

  1. Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

    • 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.
    • I feel like this concept is the Wish.com version of reincarnation.
    • But ultimately, it's the Wish.com version of a David Lean epic, partway between a pound-shop Kwai and a half-decent episode of Columbo, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Wish.com. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA