Despite English being my native language, I grew up speaking Spanish and my English isn’t that good. I constantly forget the meanings of phrases or don’t understand them.

I have a sister named Lena (14F). Her on-again, off-again “friend” Ashlyn(14F) received a note on her locker reading “HANG DEAD” and showed people, including Lena. Is this a threat to hang herself or something?

  • Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I wonder if one of you is switching the words around from dead hang?

    A dead hang is when you hold yourself from a chinup bar.

    dead hang illustrated

      • Voytek (They/Them)@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        ”Hang dead” isn’t really slang, and it means to kill someone by hanging. You might hear it said in a Western. It was likely a threat.

        as another comment said