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Short for 'featuring,' the word that turns one artist's song into two egos' real estate.
means An achievement that required notable skill, strength, or daring to pull off.
from From Old French 'fait' meaning 'deed' or 'act,' rooted in Latin 'factum' — 'a thing done' — the same ancestor that gave us 'fact.' So a feat is literally just a fact with flair: a thing done so well it earned the bragging rights.
- origin
- Clipped from feature, not from feat meaning achievement
- music credit
- Signals guest vocalist, not songwriter or producer
- chart loophole
- Billboard once let feat. artists hog multiple chart slots
- stylistic flex
- Lowercase and parenthesized to look humble, rarely is