worm on a string

English

Etymology

Popularized as an Internet meme in 2019 on social media platforms.

Noun

worm on a string (plural worms on a string)

  1. (Internet slang) Synonym of squirmle [from 2010s]
    • 2018 September 11, Brittany Vincent, “People have a strange new obsession with this Worm On A String toy”, in Daily Dot‎[1], archived from the original on 11 August 2018:
      The Worm On A String has popped up in Reddit meme communities over the last couple of years, but recently it’s infiltrated Twitter. And it looks like people can’t get enough of it.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see worm,‎ on,‎ a,‎ string.

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