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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rent-lowering gunshot

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
ren-t-low-er-ing -gun-shot
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An action, often with a potential perceived negative quality, performed to drive people away.

Etymology

Coined by analogy from a Twitter post by user 2Brazy4U on May 26, 2018; "When you move into an apartment you gotta shoot into the air every couple of weeks to make sure the rent don't go up".

Inflected Forms

rent-lowering gunshots (plural)

Questions

What does rent-lowering gunshot mean?
An action, often with a potential perceived negative quality, performed to drive people away.
Where does rent-lowering gunshot come from?
Coined by analogy from a Twitter post by user 2Brazy4U on May 26, 2018; "When you move into an apartment you gotta shoot into the air every couple of weeks to make sure the rent don't go up".

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