"If 95% of the country assigns a meaning to a slang term, well, isn't that what defines it?" As much as I want to disagree, what's wrong with this viewpoint? D

"If 95% of the country assigns a meaning to a slang term, well, isn't that what defines it?" As much as I want to disagree, what's wrong with this viewpoint? Depends on who you are, I guess. Not to conflate or compare the examples in any way, but consider: the ratio of blacks to whites in the US is close enough to the quoted comment's sphincterrific, if probably low, 95%. (It's actually 75:12, per Wikipedia; ~6:1 isn't quite 20:1, but it's still a pretty vast majority.) I can think of a word or three in that neighborhood where the majority's preferred meaning is, while perhaps not wrong, at least in the sense you use the term, not exactly what I'd call right, either.