on fleek

phrase

-ˈflēk 

slang

: perfectly done : exactly right : excellent

If your brows are on fleek, your life is on fleek—that's just the way it goes.

—Zainab Damji

… if your tattoo is on fleek, then you'll probably want to be able to come back to the same artist for more.

—Kristin Collins Jackson

You're rocking a cute new top—it's on fleek.

—Lauren Turner

Speaking of fish, the halibut in this gumbo is on fleek!

—Step Sisters

Word History

Etymology

of uncertain origin

Note: The phrase on fleek originated in a posting to the video-sharing platform Vine on June 21, 2014, by Kayla Lewis, a sixteen-year-old girl with the user name Peaches Monroee. In later interviews Ms. Lewis said that she had made up the word fleek on the spot when the video was shot. However, it has been reported that fleek appeared prior to 2014 on the Urban Dictionary website: in 2003 a contributor defined fleek as "smooth, nice, sweet," with the example sentence "That was a fleek move you pulled on that chic[k]." Another contributor entered the word in 2009, defining fleek as "awesome," as in "That was a fleek game." For background see "How 'on fleek' went from a 16-year-old's Vine to the Denny's Twitter account," by Constance Grady, posted on the website Vox on March 28, 2017; and "Geeking Out On 'Fleek,'" by Neal Whitman, posted on visualthesaurus.com on February 23, 2015.

First Known Use

2014, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for on fleek

• antique
• batik
• bespeak
• boutique
• cacique
• comique
• critique
• grosbeak
• midweek
• mystique
• oblique
• physique