phrase General Slang

snatched at the read / reading to filth

· phrase · ballroom

To be so thoroughly read you're left exposed and speechless.

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To get devastatingly read, picked apart flaw by flaw until there's nothing left to defend. 'To filth' means total, complete, no survivors. If you're reading someone to filth you're winning the whole battle of wit, and they know it.

“He came for her looks and she read him to filth, he had nothing back.”
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snatched at the read / reading to filth In A Sentence

He came for her looks and she read him to filth, he had nothing back.

Origin & Usage

Ballroom and drag vernacular from Black and Latinx queer New York. 'To filth' is an intensifier meaning completely or to the extreme; 'snatched' signals being caught off guard, both staples of the scene popularized through drag and Paris Is Burning lineage.

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