an hero

verb
/æn ˈhɪəɹəʊ/

Etymology

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.

Definitions

  1. To commit suicide.

    • So an hero already.
    • It soon became a trend on 4chan to describe someone as “an hero”—before it morphed into the verb form: “I'm going to an hero.”
    • So I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.
  2. A suicidee

    A suicidee; one who commits suicide.

    • 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.
    • Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.
    • I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for an hero. 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