Meaning of Thanos-snap | Babel Free

Definitions

To make (something) suddenly disappear.

informal

Examples

“If we Thanos-snapped Harris, Buttigieg, Booker, O'Rourke, Yang, Klobuchar, Castro, Bennet, Bullock, Delaney, Gabbard, Ryan, Williamson, Steyer, and De Blasio out of existence, here's what the field would look like, according to the polls we've conducted this summer: […]”

“Link's ship crashes on a paradise-like island where he's told by an owl that the only way he can get out is by awakening the egg atop the mountain. That's the game. Pretty simple and innocent-sounding... until you realize at the end of the game that awakening the egg basically Thanos snaps the whole island. Every single friend you make, resident, and happy person in paradise dead and gone forever. That's a wee bit dark.”

“But some of those good honeymoon-period vibes got Thanos-snapped away from PlayStation and Insomniac in an instant when Sony and Disney wouldn't play nice.”

“You don't want to have to "Thanos snap" half the population out of existence in order to get to a point where the peasants are doing better.”

“Reaction to the changes is decidedly mixed at this point: Some players are eager to try a more structured take on Overwatch PvP, while others predict the end of tank relevance: As redditor kooog put it, "OWL tanks just got Thanos snapped."”

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