Meaning & use
Stonks
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An intentionally misspelled, jokey term for "stocks," used online—often ironically—to describe a sharp rise (or occasionally fall) in a stock's value or in one's finances generally.
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Investors on the forum joked "stonks only go up" as the meme stock kept climbing.
After the layoffs, someone posted a chart captioned "stonks" pointing sharply downward.
A note on using this word
The term originated from a 2017 internet meme image of a suited businessman pointing at an upward-trending graph, and it spread widely during the 2020–2021 retail-investing boom.
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