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  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒit/, /d͡ʒiʔ/
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  • Rhymes: -iːt, -iːʔ

Etymology 1 edit

A compressed pronunciation of the words did you (d'ya) eat.

Interjection edit

jeet

  1. (US, slang) Did you eat?
    • 1976, Jack Ansell, Giants, Berkley Medallion, →OCLC, page 76:
      "Jeet yet?" he asks. He asks it every time they're together, though usually not this early.
    • 2002, The Postal Record, volume 115, page 17:
      So it will come as no surprise if a local inquires whether you've eaten yet — or, as Philadelphians say, "Jeet yet?"

Etymology 2 edit

Thought to be a clipping of pajeet (an Indian), the second part of which is derived from Hindi जीत (jīt, victory, win).

Noun edit

jeet (plural jeets)

  1. (Internet slang, cryptocurrencies, derogatory) An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.
    As the coin dropped by 1%, all of the jeets started panic-selling simultaneously.
    • 2022 January 30, u/SpecificSalamander19, “🐺 We are proud to announce that Coyote Coin is launching soon! 🔥 A Dual Chain coin created to change the way you think about crypto! 🐺”, in Reddit[1], r/AllCryptoBets, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:
      This project has the potential to fly. The whitepaper and team sold me. This is not a project for the jeets though. Jeets will need to find a low mc launch to through there .2 bean at
    • 2022 September 28, “If your looking for a 'REALTIME' education on what FOMO is...look no further”, in Reddit[2], r/WallStreetBetsCrypto, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:
      thats ok, your wife will cheer me up in the back of my porsche truck, which dumb jeets like yourself paid for by shorting and swing trading in the negative
    • 2023 May 16, u/MaximumStudent1839, “Ubisoft wants to sell Assassin's Creed's Ezio's 'digital soul' as an NFT”, in Reddit[3], r/CryptoCurrency, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:
      NFT "jeets" are Olympic champions when it comes to losing money. Somehow, they always get the best whitelists for every release. As soon as they mint something, they start to drop price by 10% every 2 hrs. In just a day or two, these jeets will sell 40% or less under mint price on OpenSea.
    • 2023 August 1, u/MWCyrus, “Richard Heart is being sued by the SEC for securities fraud!”, in Reddit[4], r/Pulsechain, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:
      this is why the jeets are running scared, but if you are well diversified on BTC and ETH you should brush it off. There´s always that risk.

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Verb edit

jeet

  1. third-person singular present indicative of joen