Meanings
plural gay baby jails
- InternetcountablehumorousuncountableAn imprisonment or containment.
NOOOOO! they got him in gay baby jail! 😔
2023 October 18, hotmilfjimin, Twitter3 more examples
tumblr user Bolto posted a picture of a bird (her bird?) in a cardboard box with a little jail window with little jail bars. the box was labeled "Gay Baby Jail" and next to the window was a drawn on speech bubble with the caption "i’m a bad baby".
2013 March 16, saccharinescorpion, TumblrBad kittens go to gay baby jail until they stop trying to eat their siblings!
2018 October 30, Raicatty, TwitterWakko's in gay baby jail for stealing Santa's cookies 😔
2020 December 24, rosevolii, Twitter
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Coined by chat users in a live stream by content creator SimpleFlips on the video streaming service Twitch in late July 2017, from an earlier sense meaning a softlock, ostensibly first attested on Tumblr since as early as 21 January 2013.
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