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ratchetness en · NOUN

Etymology

From ratchet + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (US, derogatory, slang, uncountable) The quality of being ratchet.
    • The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing. 2015 October 6, Lola Okolosie, “Cookie in Empire is a badass and a models of feminist disrespectability”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017: