Etymology

one of us

Today it means: A phrase chanted by a member or members of the in-group (almost always more than once) when a new member has joined or been accepted, willingly or by doing a behavior or action that is considered to have brought them into the group. Full definition →

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The story

A phrase chanted by the sideshow performers in the 1932 horror film Freaks.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.