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an-hero

Verb

(third-person singular simple present an heros, present participle an heroing, simple past and past participle an heroed)

  1. (Internet, slang) To commit suicide.
Noun

(plural an heroes or an heros)

  1. (Internet, slang) One who commits suicide.
Origin

Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. It was inspired by a grammatical error in a poem that the classmate of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006 wrote and posted to a MySpace memorial page.

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