lagostar

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lagosta +‎ -ar. Originally from the lobster emoji (🦞), referencing a short video of a lobster jumping into a pot of boiling oil, popularized in 2022 as an Internet meme.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /la.ɡosˈta(ʁ)/ [la.ɡosˈta(h)]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /lɐ.ɡuʃˈtaɾ/ [lɐ.ɣuʃˈtaɾ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /lɐ.ɡuʃˈta.ɾi/ [lɐ.ɣuʃˈta.ɾi]

  • Hyphenation: la‧gos‧tar

Verb

lagostar (first-person singular present lagosto, first-person singular preterite lagostei, past participle lagostado)

  1. (intransitive or reflexive, Brazil, Internet slang, typically humorous) to kill (oneself) [from 2022]

Conjugation

References

  • Storment, John David (2024), “Going ✈️ lexicon? The linguistic status of pro-text emojis”, in Glossa, volume 9, number 1, United Kingdom: Open Library of Humanities, →DOI, →ISSN