Caitlin

@Geoff Offermann I think locs is more common than dreadlocks these days, particularly among black people. So quite unlike "amuck" in this sense, which is archaic.

@Meryl S. It's not a denigrating term. It just means an attractive person. It's a lighthearted, tongue in cheek kind of term. And it's probably used more often for men, actually. Certainly I've usually seen it for attractive male celebrities more than anything else. I don't know who these people getting upset at an entirely innocuous Internet-ism is, but as a woman of reproductive age, there are very real problems that we face and this isn't one of them.

@Barry Ancona for what it's worth I have never called it anything besides a U-turn and I have never heard someone call it a Uie. If someone said that out loud to me I would probably have asked them what they were talking about. I thought it was a made up word when I first saw it as well. Maybe it's slang from a bygone era but I too consider this as crosswordese.

@SP it is absolutely just another term for "hottie" a la "eye candy" or "hunk/babe". It doesn't mean anything besides that they're good looking and lends itself to jokes like "he's not a snack, he's an entire meal!". It's also a highly internet-based phrase. Since I'm a millennial who has had the Internet around for my entire adult life, I don't know if this is different from how slang was previously, but almost all slang that comes from the Internet is inherently at least partly tounge in cheek. No one would say "he's a snack" in a 100% serious way, the way you might call someone beautiful or something. It's inherently a lighthearted, fun little term, as is most of millennial/gen Z internet slang. I don't know if people have missed the tongue in cheek aspect of it and that's changing their opinion. As we'd say on the internet, "it's not that deep". Signed, a very feminist millennial woman who has no issue with silly little modern slang.

@Jackson I ended up having to check the puzzle to get FAY. I've seen fey as an adjective but have never seen "fay" instead of "fae" before either. And I have seen "fae" a bunch of times as someone who reads a fair amount of fantasy books.

@dutchiris I imagine most people have heard it but have never seen it spelled. It's pronounced more like "juj" to me. It's used very similar to jazzing something up.

@Francis it's the Spanish spelling if that makes it easier to remember!

@Mean Old Lady the hat that most people think of when you say beanie is the knitted hat people wear in cold weather. Not a cartoon hat! They're definitely called beanies now, although I think somewhere calls them toboggans.

@Veritas vos liberabit I would think everyone has heard of "roid rage" at this point.

@Kyle agree - this is probably a millennial term. I'd be open to Gen X but I think it's a term that reached its zenith circa peak Tumblr which is firmly in the millennial category. It's not a Gen Z term at all.

@Grumpy it's don't know that's how I would have thought to spell it but it's been a slang word (not that I would use it) for some time. In Parks and Rec, one of the characters had a "dunzo list" ("it means you and i are done") in 2011.