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Texting shortcut for “được” — can / OK / fine.
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Internet-culture Vietnamese — forum, gaming, and social-media expressions.
Texting shortcut for “được” — can / OK / fine.
Deadline in hot pursuit — "dí" is the chase: the work is behind you, gaining, and your weekend is what it eats.
Vulgar expletive initialism (đ* má) — “damn it / f—”. Extremely common online as pure exclamation; still an obscenity.
Texting shortcut for “dễ thương” — cute, adorable.
To get caught in a scandal — the stain sticks to you once your misstep hits the feed.
«Dark», as mangled by a Telex keyboard slip — flagship of the 2021 dảk-dảk-bủh-bủh meme wave; tags dark humor or anything grimly funny while wearing the typo on purpose.
To "throw hands" — respond with (usually imaginary) martial-arts fury; internet shorthand for escalating from words to theatrical combat.
To cling to someone else's fame — riding a trending name or scandal for reflected attention.
Riding the wave — jumping onto a price run already in motion, hoping to surf a little further; one mistimed hop and you have graduated to «đu đỉnh» (bag-holding at the very top).
To hop on a trend — joining the viral dance, sound, or meme of the week; "đu" (to swing/cling) makes the chase physical.
Frozen stiff — stunned into a blank stare, buffering like a crashed app.
Beautiful with "no dead angle" — flawless from every camera position; the photography term promoted into everyday praise.
Beauty is an advantage — but a good essay is more than its opening. A viral aphorism that grants looks their due (they open doors) and then swiftly demotes them: substance carries the rest of the page. Used to praise depth over polish, tease the shallow, or console the plain.
The peak of the peak — absolutely top-tier.
Peak-of-the-roof good — an intensifier pile-up meaning absolutely top-tier: đỉnh, nóc and kịch trần each already mean «the ceiling», stacked for comic overkill. Popularized by comedian Tự Long’s ad-lib on «Anh trai vượt ngàn chông gai».
The «driving crew» — a ring of big-money players who steer a stock’s price up or down in concert and harvest the retail investors who follow; Vietnam’s name for coordinated market manipulators.
Peak at the ceiling — quality maxed out with no headroom left; the chart stops here.