high-T

English

Etymology

Clipping of high testosterone.

Noun

high-T (uncountable)

  1. (slang, medicine, andrology) High levels of testosterone in a body.
    Antonym: low-T
    • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎[1]:
      In recent years, many in this world have become obsessed with the idea that conservative guys are jacked, masculine, high-T GigaChads while liberals are weak, emasculated, low-T Soy Boys.
    • 2024 September 3, Noor Al-Sibai, “Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone”, in The Byte‎[2]:
      Beyond the glaring sexism inherent in suggesting that women's brains are so different from men's that they can't think properly, Musk lending credence to this dogshit hypothesis is incredibly goofy given that he and his audience of supposedly "high-T" men seem far more likely to fall in line with the sort of groupthink the original post references in such pseudo-phrenological terms.
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