Etymology

r-slurred

Today it means: Retarded; extremely stupid or deranged. Full definition →

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From r-slur + -ed. Came into common use on Reddit beginning around 2019 in response to increasing censorship of the words retard and retarded.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.