(adj) To be known is to be popular (good or bad) for one reason or another. Like the guy who fell off the top of the BMW, or the girl who accidentally had sex with a watermelon.
"You've been known ever since you said ZOMG in your sleep at band camp."

"Fook."
by Sakhalin Cruschev April 8, 2006
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There are known knowns, that is to say that there are things we know that we know.
by Bushmonkey October 1, 2006
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an expression indicating that a given idea is based more on superstition or outright bullshit than on fact \ derived from dialogue in TV series “Game of Thrones
Global warming is naturally caused by the Sun - just as the Moon is a goddess and the Sun's wife; it is known.
by ΔиłĦ☼иצ ߀₡ʞ January 29, 2012
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Someone you know is known. When you know somebody, you don't have to test them to know who they always were.
1) The guy was a relative of him/her, so he didn't need to test him/her to know who he/she really was, he had known him/her growing up.

2) The guy had spent years around him/her at work, so he knew who he/she really was without having to test him/her. The other worker/coworker was known to him.
by Solid Mantis November 25, 2019
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A guy who dunked on john and tony and then proceed to steal their job and ban them
guy 1: what just happened everything changed?
guy 2: the known happened
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This is a phrase used to introduce aliases, nicknames, working names, legalised names, author’s pen names and so on. Identical in meaning to the old English word Yclept, it is often abbreviated to AKA.
Politicians, also known as two-faced exponents of weasel words.
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The act of being on Wikipedia.
Nowadays, any loser can be wikipedia-known for bizarre endeavors such as coconut palm climbing and having a porn video on the internet
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