Kek

loser, fool, clown (internet/meme insult)

Origin

Internet and rap slang for 'loser', 'failure' or 'victim'. The form goes back to Korean laughter 'ㅋㅋㅋ' (kekeke): in World of Warcraft, 'LOL' typed by the rival faction was shown as 'KEK' through a character-substitution cipher. Independently, German rappers such as Bushido and Fler used 'Kek' as an insult from around 2002; in Turkish slang 'kek' also means 'cake'. These threads converge in today's meaning.

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Examples

  • dir den Kek an, der versteht .

    Look at that clown, he gets nothing.