9/11
noun
- 2001 Islamist terrorist attacks in the U.S.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /naɪn.əˈlɛ.vən/
name
Etymology: From the date September 11 written in numbers according the format often used in the United States, which puts the month before the day.
- September 11, 2001; The date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States.
- The attacks themselves.
“What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.”
“Republican front-runner twisted his arms in apparent imitation of Serge Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as he reiterated controversial 9/11 claims”
noun
Etymology: From the date September 11 written in numbers according the format often used in the United States, which puts the month before the day.
- September 11, a date of the calendar.
- An event comparable to the September 11 attacks.
“Eleven million Spaniards responded to "their 9/11" by demonstrating in the rain against terrorism and their government's policies.”
“Moussaoui says he wants more 9/11s [title]”
- A negative event that a person or a group of people have experienced whose impact is, hyperbolically, comparable to that of the September 11 attacks.
“This was my 9/11.”
“9/11 for unfunny people”