• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    ā€œCookedā€ is Gen Z slang, basically means ā€œdone.ā€

    • ā€œThis guyā€™s cooked.ā€ (Heā€™s had too much/heā€™s out of it/heā€™s screwed)

    • ā€œIā€™m cooked, chat.ā€ (Iā€™m out of options/itā€™s over for me)

    In the context of this meme, which is from the movie Back to the Future, Marty is in the past and using slang that hasnā€™t entered popular use yet, so Doc thinks heā€™s talking about cooking food and is confused about what he means.

    Also not to be confused with similar ā€œLet them cookā€ (theyā€™re onto something, letā€™s see where this goes).

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        12 hours ago

        And if things werenā€™t confusing enough, the post didnā€™t mention cooked can also be positive. ā€œYou cookedā€ meaning you did excelled at something.