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ConnectWord · Ages 10-30 · In use

aight

"All right", squeezed down. Means OK, or "it's fine, nothing special".

Aight, I'm heading home. The movie was aight.

For parents and educators

Harmless. "Ight" in a text is just a quick OK.

Where it came from

From Black American English and hip-hop. The spellings date to the 1990s.

Also heard as

ight, iight, a'ight

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