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gay baby jail en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Coined by chat users in a live stream by content creator SimpleFlips on the video streaming service Twitch in late July 2017, from an earlier sense meaning a softlock, ostensibly first attested on Tumblr since as early as 21 January 2013.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, countable, humorous, uncountable) An imprisonment or containment.
    • tumblr user Bolto posted a picture of a bird (her bird?) in a cardboard box with a little jail window with little jail bars. the box was labeled "Gay Baby Jail" and next to the window was a drawn on speech bubble with the caption "i’m a bad baby". 2013 March 16, saccharinescorpion, Tumblr:
    • NOOOOO! they got him in gay baby jail! 😔 2023 October 18, hotmilfjimin, Twitter:
    • Bad kittens go to gay baby jail until they stop trying to eat their siblings! 2018 October 30, Raicatty, Twitter:
    • Wakko's in gay baby jail for stealing Santa's cookies 😔 2020 December 24, rosevolii, Twitter:

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