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make fetch happen

verb

Etymology

From the 2004 film Mean Girls, in which the character Gretchen Wieners repeatedly uses fetch as a synonym for cool, leading another character to tell her to "stop trying to make fetch happen."

Definitions

  1. To make something, especially a term or expression, catch on.

    • Teuvo Teravainen was Turbo in Rockford, and despite the best efforts of Jonathan Toews—er, Tazer—to make Fetch happen, it never stuck in Chicago.
    • I was born 'James', and despite Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively trying to make fetch happen, James remains very much a boy's name.
    • The term “trank plot” is my own. I'm trying to make fetch happen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for make fetch happen. 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