Ready to Go Full ‘Fash’?

Quite a few people are. Let’s talk about that.

Gippolito Ndp
5 min readMar 15, 2023
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I’ll admit that when I saw this term in an article back in February in Politico, I was a little confused. I’d heard the slang term before, but in a context rather different than in that article.

I finally got around to following up, though, and thought I’d do a quick internet search to begin with to lead this article.

This happens to be the context I already knew about, having had a Scots friend years ago who liked to use it:

Screenshot by author, search page accessed 3/14/23

And then there’s this, which I hadn’t run across before as far as I recall:

Screenshot by author, search page accessed 3/14/23

Cool. Always a good day when you can learn something new.

Ah … so is Donald Trump that particular “fash?” What about George Santos?

Anyway, about that article from February, from Politico, here’s the headline:

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Gippolito Ndp

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