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the label that turns a hoodie into a personality.
means the top, school-representing team or level in a sport (and by extension, anything stamped with that first-string, varsity-letter prestige).
from A British clipped-and-slurred shortening of 'university' — 'varsity' was slangy 19th-century speech for university sports and university life generally. The word crossed to America and narrowed its job, latching onto high-school and college teams as the label for the top squad, while the UK mostly let the slang term fade and kept 'university.'
- origin
- short for university, oddly only americans kept it
- signals
- top tier team, not just any team
- irony
- jv's whole identity is wanting this word