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Thirst Trap
THURST trapnoun
What it means
A photograph in which the pose, the angle and the lighting were all chosen by accident, and the caption insists the post was about the sunset.
What it actually means
It was never about the sunset.
How it is used in a sentence
"He posted a thirst trap at midnight and deleted it by nine."
Filed under
Social Dynamics — The unwritten rules we invented online and now enforce in public without irony.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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