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ratchet

When it’s all gone to hell... your hair, your clothes, your job, your life... then you’re considered "ratchet." The word was initially created to describe a woman who can’t keep it together, but it’s morphed to embody pretty much anybody whose personal or professional life has gone off the rails.

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