ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ratchetness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Ratchetness is a noun meaning (US, slang, derogatory) The quality of being ratchet.

Meaning

(US, slang, derogatory) The quality of being ratchet.

Example Sentences

The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rattiness, racketiness, rattishness, ratness, rattlingness, knackiness.

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