seggs

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/sɛɡz/

noun

Filter-avoidance spelling of sex (“sexual activity”).

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounseggs (uncountable)

alternative segs · alternative s🥚 · alternative s🥚s

  1. InterneteuphemisticuncountableFilter-avoidance spelling of sex (“sexual activity”).

    TikTok creators have gotten into the habit of coming up with substitutes for words that they worry might either affect how their videos get promoted on the site or run afoul of moderation rules. […] Sex became “seggs.”

    [2022 November 19, Melina Delkic, “Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language”, in The New York Times
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    The Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter is using her Instagram stories as a platform for her followers to share their deepest secrets, which she reposts anonymously along with her own reactions. […] One of the more shocking confessions reads: "I had seggs with both of her parents."

    2021 September 1, Emma Nolan, “Jazmine Sullivan's Instagram Confessions Delight and Disgust Fans”, in Newsweek

    [Jesse] Sullivan became a parent when he was in high school and had his child, Arlo. In one of his most watched TikToks, Sullivan wrote "me having unprotected seggs in high school" over a video of him lip-syncing to an audio clip from Euphoria of the main character, Rue, saying, "honestly, I don't really give a f—."

    2024 April 12, Rebecca Aizin, “Who Is Francesca Farago's Fiancé? All About Jesse Sullivan”, in People.com, via EBSCOhost

Origin

Adam Aleksic argues that seggs is not merely a filter-avoidance spelling, which secks would satisfy, but is also a minced oath that functions as a diminutive.

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APA

seggs. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seggs

MLA

“seggs.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seggs. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “seggs,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seggs.

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