Slang dictionary
pics
or pix
What does pics mean?
Pics is an informal shortening of “pictures,” usually used in reference to sharing images online or through text messages.
Related words:
- dick pic
- pics or GTFO
- Rule 32 of the internet
Where does pics come from?
Since the 1880s, pic has been short for picture in art and photography. In the 1910s, the pics referred to motion pictures.聽But, with the rise of the internet and cell-phone cameras in the 2000s,聽pics聽soon became slang for photographs taken and sent in text/instant messages or posted in online forums or on social media.
The slang听辫颈肠蝉聽became very widespread in the 2010s. It appears in everyday speech and online writing.聽Celebrity magazine Us Weekly, for instance,聽has a column designated to celebrity photos called Hot Pics. Articles frequently use pics聽as a handy shortening in their headlines.
Pics is especially used for sexy or nude photographs, such as the notorious dick pic. A person might direct-message a romantic interest to send pics …聽which we all know means send naked聽pics.
On internet forums, the expressions pics or GTFO and pics or it didn’t happen聽ask a user to post pictures of something, often sexual in nature, as evidence. The latter is the so-called Rule 32 of the internet.
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In the late 2010s, pics has become increasingly shorted to 辫颈虫听(肠蹿.,听tix for tickets), sometimes used in the singular (e.g., an awesome pix).
Examples of pics
Who uses pics?
On social media, people frequently post all sorts of photos with the hashtag “#pics.”
“my burlesque-ish Harley Quinn at last year.”
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best of in #2016 by
鈥� Albert Batlle 馃帡 (@albertbatlle)
Outside the hashtag, pics is used in casual speech and writing for “photographs” in general, whether professional or amateur.
Have some RDJ pics. His eyes look so big in here, he’s like Bambi.
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