jeet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒit/, /d͡ʒiʔ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːt, -iːʔ

Etymology 1

A compressed pronunciation of the words did you (d'ya) eat.

Interjection

jeet

1. (US, slang) Did you eat?
   • 1976, Jack Ansell, Giants, Berkley Medallion, →OCLC, page 76:

     "Jeet yet?" he asks. He asks it every time they're together, though usually not this early.

   • 2002, The Postal Record, volume 115, page 17:

     So it will come as no surprise if a local inquires whether you've eaten yet — or, as Philadelphians say, "Jeet yet?"

Etymology 2

Clipping of pajeet (“an Indian”), the second part of which is derived from Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory, win”). Sense 2 likely stems from the fact Indian posters tended to shill low circulation crypto coins (or "shitcoins") in order to get anons on 4chan's /biz/ board to buy into them, only for the scammer to sell off at the first hint the coin was going for a downturn.

Noun

jeet (plural jeets)

1. (Internet slang, 4chan, offensive, ethnic slur) An Indian.
   • 2024 February 4, u/fourthwallcrisis, “Anon is asianmasculinity sub user”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/4chan, archived from the original on 8 September 2024:

     So unless Asian chicks secretly date jeets somewhere no one ever fucking notices them, it just ain't happening. Always white dudes or other asian dudes.

   • 2024 July 31, u/SituatiornIndividjul, “The white collar job market feels like it has been unbelievably decimated.”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 8 September 2024:

     Every job opening has 100s of jeets flooding applications so good luck getting your resume looked at. The tech industry(and especially tech depts in non-tech companies) is mutilating itself to reduce costs, and not even by that much because they could accomplish more with less people if they just hired westerners instead of jeets. The era of easy job hunting is tech is over.

   • 2024 August 31, @JamesPGoddard90, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 8 September 2024:

     No self respecting white woman would ever marry a jeet

   • 2024 September 1, @hyperboreanakl, Twitter‎^[4], archived from the original on 8 September 2024:

     Decided to give jeets a break and buy some Indian cuisine for the family.

3. (Internet slang, 4chan, cryptocurrencies, derogatory) An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.

   As the coin dropped by 1%, all of the jeets started panic-selling simultaneously.

   • 2022 January 30, u/SpecificSalamander19, “🐺 We are proud to announce that Coyote Coin is launching soon! 🔥 A Dual Chain coin created to change the way you think about crypto! 🐺”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/AllCryptoBets, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:

     This project has the potential to fly. The whitepaper and team sold me. This is not a project for the jeets though. Jeets will need to find a low mc launch to through there .2 bean at

   • 2022 September 28, “If your looking for a 'REALTIME' education on what FOMO is...look no further”, in Reddit‎^[6], r/WallStreetBetsCrypto, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:

     thats ok, your wife will cheer me up in the back of my porsche truck, which dumb jeets like yourself paid for by shorting and swing trading in the negative

   • 2023 May 16, u/MaximumStudent1839, “Ubisoft wants to sell Assassin's Creed's Ezio's 'digital soul' as an NFT”, in Reddit‎^[7], r/CryptoCurrency, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:

     NFT "jeets" are Olympic champions when it comes to losing money. Somehow, they always get the best whitelists for every release. As soon as they mint something, they start to drop price by 10% every 2 hrs. In just a day or two, these jeets will sell 40% or less under mint price on OpenSea.

   • 2023 August 1, u/MWCyrus, “Richard Heart is being sued by the SEC for securities fraud!”, in Reddit‎^[8], r/Pulsechain, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:

     this is why the jeets are running scared, but if you are well diversified on BTC and ETH you should brush it off. There´s always that risk.

Further reading

• “jeet”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.

Anagrams

• jete, jeté

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeːt/, /ʒeːt/

Verb

jeet

1. third-person singular present indicative of joen