What does broken leg mean?
In recent years, the word "broken leg" has appeared frequently in the Internet context, but its meaning is not a literal limb break, but has derived a variety of metaphors and ridiculing uses. This article will combine the hot topics on the Internet in the past 10 days, analyze the multiple meanings of "broken leg", and display relevant hot topics through structured data.
1. Common meanings of “broken leg”

1.Literal meaning: Refers to a broken leg or serious injury caused by accident or illness.
2.Internet ridicule: Often used to describe "plummet in price" or "plummet in income". For example, "the fund has a broken leg" means serious investment losses.
3.gaming terminology: In competitive games, it refers to the character's skills or equipment being weakened, resulting in a significant decrease in combat effectiveness.
4.social metaphor: To make fun of someone who "can't run anymore" due to overwork or stress.
2. Hot topics related to “broken legs” in the past 10 days
| Topic Category | Specific content | heat index |
|---|---|---|
| Finance | A certain cryptocurrency plummeted 30% in a single day, and netizens joked that "Bitcoin has a broken leg." | ★★★★ |
| game | After a popular MOBA game was updated, hero skills were weakened, and players complained that "the official leg has been broken again" | ★★★ |
| society | A worker laughs at himself for "working overtime until his legs break", sparking discussion on workplace stress | ★★★ |
| Entertainment | Tickets for celebrity concerts sold out in seconds, and fans complained that their "hands were so slow that they broke their legs" | ★★ |
3. Case analysis: looking at the propagation characteristics of Internet language from the perspective of "broken legs"
1.Iterate quickly: Internet terms are often derived from specific events. For example, "the fund broke its leg" originated from the stock market crash in 2022.
2.Spread across circles: The game term "broken leg" has been borrowed by finance, workplace and other fields to form a generalized expression.
3.emotional resonance: Strengthen emotional expression through exaggerated physical metaphors (such as "running and breaking a leg").
4. Related search data statistics (last 10 days)
| keywords | Search volume (10,000 times) | Main areas of relevance |
|---|---|---|
| What does broken leg mean? | 12.5 | Internet slang |
| Fund's broken leg | 8.3 | Finance |
| Hero breaks leg | 6.1 | game |
| Broken leg running | 5.7 | Workplace/Life |
5. Summary
"Broken leg" is a hot word with multiple meanings on the Internet. It not only reflects the current pressure of contemporary society (such as "breaking a leg" in the workplace), but also reflects netizens' joking attitude towards economic fluctuations (such as "funds breaking a leg") and entertainment consumption (such as "stealing votes and breaking a leg"). Its dissemination process fully demonstrates the evolution law of Internet language "from concreteness to abstraction", and more new usages may be derived in the future.
Note: The above data is synthesized from Baidu Index, Weibo hot search list and Zhihu hot posts (statistical period: October 1-10, 2023).
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