Meanings
present singular third person an heros · present singular third person an heroes · participle present an heroing · participle past an heroed · past an heroed · alternative anhero
- InternetintransitivetransitiveTo commit suicide.
So an hero already.
2009 May 9, henri, “Re: NOMINATION - Bill Jillians/"<p>sychotic <c>hicken" For KotM & CotM .. (was) Re: hey guys ... anyone want in on a flame war I'm starting between 2 groups”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet)2 more examples
It soon became a trend on 4chan to describe someone as “an hero”—before it morphed into the verb form: “I'm going to an hero.”
2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company, published 2012, →ISBNSo I’m going to an hero on webcam he continued typing and I’ll post the link to the stream in a second.
2013, Trevor James Zaple, chapter 1, in Disappearance, Lulu, published 2013, →ISBNSynonyms: commit die
plural an heroes · plural an heros · alternative anhero
- InternetA suicidee; one who commits suicide.
I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.
2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet)2 more examples
In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.
2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet)Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.
2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo commit suicide.
Origin
Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish sankaroitua
- sankaroituato commit suicide (internet slang)
Polish bohatyrnąć
- bohatyrnąćto commit suicide (internet slang)
Russian роскомнадзорнуться
- роскомнадзорнуться (roskomnadzornutʹsja)to commit suicide (internet slang)
Cite this entry
an hero. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/an%20hero
“an hero.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/an%20hero. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “an hero,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/an%20hero.
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