skull

What it means

To laugh so hard you're metaphorically dead, represented by the skull emoji (💀). Saying you're "skulling" or just dropping a skull means something was hilarious, essentially the modern version of "I'm dead" or "crying laughing."

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Examples

• Bro I'm skulling at this video, send help.
• The way she said that, I'm literally skull 💀
• Not me skulling in class because of this meme.
• His comment had me skulling for ten minutes.

Where it comes from

Grew out of the "I'm dead" laughter expression, with the skull emoji (💀) replacing the laughing-crying emoji as Gen-Z's preferred way to signal extreme laughter on TikTok and Twitter around 2020-2021.

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