Ghost-lit": This describes a situation where someone who has been ghosted starts to believe it's their fault or that they were in the wrong. It combines the feeling of being ghosted with gaslighting.
Sam: hey guys, how's it going!
his friends: *ignores and keeps talking*
Sam: hey, hey GUYS!
his friends: *stares at him and continues talking*
Sam in his mind: aw.. maybe it'ssomething I did- what did I do?
as you can see here Sam is feeling ghost lit like he did something wrong by being ghosted.
A portmanteau of "meta" and "literal" used to describe a pun-actual event. It refers to a situation where a physical action and its figurative metaphor occur as a single, unified experience.
Unlike the common usage of "literally" (to mean "actually"), meta-lit cannot stand alone. It is a conversational hook that invites an explanation to reveal the sometimes unobvious metaphor. It highlights the cosmic irony of moments where life is perfectly "on-the-nose."
"I was meta-lit snowballed today."
(Explanation: I was pelted with actual snowballs (literal) and became overwhelmed because there were so many coming at once (metaphorical).)