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For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.

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[โ€“] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I once did something sort of like this.

Back in the early days of the internet, I was on IRC playing trivia. Often people would talk about wag or wagging. I didn't know exactly what it meant but I'm pretty good at inferring from context clues... usually.

They asked a Star Wars question and of course I knew it right away. I realized in the moment I was practically wagging in anticipation of being correct and I announced it as my first wag.

Of course, wag stood for wild ass guess so I had gotten the meaning completely backward. It still haunts me to this day, some 35+ years later, even though no one but me probably knew about my mistake.

[โ€“] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

My condolences.