Entry · catalog no. 1006
on fleek
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phrase · Chicago / internet ·
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1.
Flawlessly done, precisely right — first said of eyebrows, quickly of anything worth admiring.
“Her braids were on fleek at graduation.”
Origin & Attribution
Coined on camera by Kayla Newman — Peaches Monroee — a Black teenager from Chicago, in a Vine posted June 21, 2014. Brands and celebrities built campaigns on her word while she saw none of the profit: a textbook case of Black language creating value its creators never get paid for.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide / diaspora
Chicago / internet ·
Spoken by
$ONFLEEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ 26 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
60/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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"Eyebrows on fleek" Vine, Kayla Newman (Peaches Monroee) — video · 2014
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+ Cite a sourceThe FADER, on Kayla Newman's cosmetics-line fundraiser — article · 2017
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