Entry · catalog no. 0911
snapped
/ /snæpt/ /SNAPT
verb · Nationwide; Black Twitter and rap · 2010s
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1.
Performed at a level beyond expectation — a verse, a look, a plate, a play. Said in the past tense as a verdict: she snapped.
“Have you heard her second verse? She snapped, no discussion.”
Origin & Attribution
African-American Vernacular English of the 2010s, spread through rap and Black Twitter — the burst-of-intensity sense of snap turned into a verdict of excellence. Lil Yachty's 2016 verse on "iSpy" — six months later, I had snapped — used it as shorthand for arriving at full power, and the she-snapped construction became the standard rave.
2016
Lil Yachty's iSpy verse puts the arrival sense on a hit record
late 2010s
She snapped becomes Black Twitter's standard rave
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide
Nationwide; Black Twitter and rap · 2010s
Spoken by
Black Twitter, rap, then general youth speech
$SNAPPEThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady10 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
68/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2016
in the culture
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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KYLE feat. Lil Yachty, iSpy, Indie-Pop/Atlantic
2016
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+ Cite a sourceRap Dictionary, snapped
2010s
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