CULTURETECHLENSnetflix and chill
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Combined Graph record U-00802 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0401. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
'Among the New Words,' American Speech 91.2 (May 2016), Duke University Press / American Dialect Society (Zimmer, Solomon, Carson), fetched in full: 'Netflix and chill, #NetflixAndChill phr — Sexual come-on masked as a suggestion to watch Netflix and relax,' with dated Twitter citations beginning 2014 May 28; the entry traces its drift from a plain descriptive phrase to 'a known code phrase' (quoting Fusion, Aug 15, 2015).
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'Among the New Words,' American Speech 91.2 (May 2016), Duke University Press / American Dialect Society (Zimmer, Solomon, Carson), fetched in full: 'Netflix and chill, #NetflixAndChill phr — Sexual come-on masked as a suggestion to watch Netflix and relax,' with dated Twitter citations beginning 2014 May 28; the entry traces its drift from a plain descriptive phrase to 'a known code phrase' (quoting Fusion, Aug 15, 2015).
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'Among the New Words,' American Speech 91.2 (May 2016), Duke University Press / American Dialect Society (Zimmer, Solomon, Carson), fetched in full: 'Netflix and chill, #NetflixAndChill phr — Sexual come-on masked as a suggestion to watch Netflix and relax,' with dated Twitter citations beginning 2014 May 28; the entry traces its drift from a plain descriptive phrase to 'a known code phrase' (quoting Fusion, Aug 15, 2015).
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