Etymology

Wish.com

Today it means: Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy. Full definition →

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The story

From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.