Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make fetch happen

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: make fetch hap-pen
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make something, especially a term or expression, catch on.

Humorous; Slang

Example Sentences

"Teuvo Teravainen was Turbo in Rockford, and despite the best efforts of Jonathan Toews—er, Tazer—to make Fetch happen, it never stuck in Chicago."
"I was born 'James', and despite Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively trying to make fetch happen, James remains very much a boy's name."
"The term “trank plot” is my own. I'm trying to make fetch happen."
"He’ll rage and then head over Parler to try to make fetch happen, which will not satisfy his enormous ego. It will all end in a whimper."
"It caught on. Pretty soon all the kids in my class were saying, “That’s hot.” Like I made “fetch” happen! (Mean Girls reference. That’s hot.)"
"Both allusions required some squinting to identify. Circling back to such good-but-not-that-good frameworks can feel like the “SNL” equivalent of trying to make “fetch” happen, wedging them into the canon by brute strength rather than organic enthusiasm."

Etymology

From the 2004 film Mean Girls, in which the character Gretchen Wieners repeatedly uses fetch as a synonym for cool, leading another character to tell her to "stop trying to make fetch happen."

Usage

Inflected Forms

makes fetch happen (present, singular) making fetch happen (participle, present) made fetch happen (participle, past) made fetch happen (past)

Questions

What does make fetch happen mean?: To make something, especially a term or expression, catch on.
Where does make fetch happen come from?: From the 2004 film Mean Girls, in which the character Gretchen Wieners repeatedly uses fetch as a synonym for cool, leading another character to tell her to "stop trying to make fetch happen."

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