Etymology

make fetch happen

Today it means: To make something, especially a term or expression, catch on. Full definition →

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The story

From the 2004 film Mean Girls, in which the character Gretchen Wieners repeatedly uses fetch as a synonym for cool, leading another character to tell her to "stop trying to make fetch happen."

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