CULTURETECHLENSlit
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Combined Graph record U-00809 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-W-0408. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Merriam-Webster wordplay explainer (fetched in full): ''Lit' has been a slang term meaning "intoxicated" for over a century' (1918 citation, John McGavock Grider, War Birds); 'More recently, it has acquired the meaning "exciting"... "excellent"'; the explainer dates the transition to the environment sense to the 2010s, and the sense was added to the dictionary in January 2021. Stored meaning 'exciting, excellent' matches the newest sense.
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Merriam-Webster wordplay explainer (fetched in full): ''Lit' has been a slang term meaning "intoxicated" for over a century' (1918 citation, John McGavock Grider, War Birds); 'More recently, it has acquired the meaning "exciting"... "excellent"'; the explainer dates the transition to the environment sense to the 2010s, and the sense was added to the dictionary in January 2021. Stored meaning 'exciting, excellent' matches the newest sense.
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- Also known as: it's lit
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- https://WWW.Merriam-Webster.com/wordplay/lit-meaning-origin (verification source · master store)
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Merriam-Webster wordplay explainer (fetched in full): ''Lit' has been a slang term meaning "intoxicated" for over a century' (1918 citation, John McGavock Grider, War Birds); 'More recently, it has acquired the meaning "exciting"... "excellent"'; the explainer dates the transition to the environment sense to the 2010s, and the sense was added to the dictionary in January 2021. Stored meaning 'exciting, excellent' matches the newest sense.
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