verb
Internet Slang
mew
· verb · internet
Pseudoscientific tongue-on-the-roof-of-the-mouth posture, sold on TikTok as a free jawline upgrade.
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Definitions
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Resting your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, supposedly to reshape your jaw and sharpen your cheekbones over time. The signature move of looksmaxxing TikTok. Whether it actually does anything is heavily disputed; whether teens believe it does is not.
“He's been mewing through every lesson, thinks he's gonna unlock a new face by Christmas.”
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The TikTok-meme gesture — finger to lips meaning 'I can't speak, I'm mewing' — used as a joke way to dodge a question or stay silent.
“Teacher asked who threw the pen and the whole back row just mewed.”
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mew In A Sentence
He's been mewing through every lesson, thinks he's gonna unlock a new face by Christmas.
Teacher asked who threw the pen and the whole back row just mewed.
Origin & Usage
Named after British orthodontists John and Mike Mew, whose 'orthotropics' theories went viral on TikTok around 2019 and detonated again in 2023–2024 inside the looksmaxxing subculture. Mainstream dentistry considers the jaw-reshaping claims unproven.
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