Etymology

Swayze

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Today it means: gone; dead Full definition →

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The story

The adjective sense “gone” is a reference to actor Patrick Swayze, who played a ghost in the romantic fantasy thriller Ghost (1990).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.