a word used to refer to any item, place, event, feeling, matter/issue, detail, situation, course of action, idea, etc.
I can't find the thing.
Did you go to the thing?
The thing just got weird.
That's the thing to do.
I have to talk to you about the thing.



by gd January 27, 2003
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It’s the stage where you aren’t quite dating, but you’ve both established romantic feelings for each other. It’s exclusive but not official.
“So are you and David dating?”
“No but we’re in a thing.”
by advicegiver12 October 09, 2019
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Phrase to literally identify anything as a “thing”. Used mainly to state that something unusual is going on and it’s a thing because it’s in reality.
“The woman at cvs just closed the door 25 minutes earlier so I guess that’s a thing
“My boyfriend is actually a woman soooo apparently that a thing “
“Wow that’s a thing?” (Talking about any crazy situation)
“Mom I just got arrested for walking drunk.. I didn’t know that’s a thing”
by Goldilocks25 February 28, 2018
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In the white American lexicon, this phrase means “the thing is” but has somehow transformed to include the word ‘is’ twice, colloquially.
The thing is is that Friends was a groundbreaking sitcoms, guys.”
by blacksnatch June 04, 2019
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Border between friendship and an actual relationship
Me and Daniel had a thing however I noticed hown he was a fuckboy so I stopped talking to him
by CalzonManchado February 19, 2017
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