lifefuel

lifefuel

English

Etymology

Blend of life +‎ fuel.

Noun

lifefuel (uncountable)

1. (incel slang) Something that makes one optimistic about life.
   • 2019, The New York Times, The Religious Hunger of the Radical Right

     Rather, it is to envision a productive way forward — a chance to de-radicalize some of them before they commit acts of violence, to provide people with a different form of “lifefuel.”

   • 2020, Crawlspace Media, 23: LIFEFUEL: Epigenetics and Empiricism, w/ Mike Niconchuk

   • 2018, Huffington Post, The Time For ‘Incel’ Explainers Was Years Ago

     When Stephen Paddock massacred dozens of “normies” at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Reddit’s incels celebrated the news as “PURE LIFEFUEL.” One commenter “joked” that he had “fapped” to video of the shooting.