stressed-out

stressed-out
adj
British
a.
unwell, uncomfortable, discontented.
In secondary school playground slang this use of the colloquialism is generalised from its normal sense to incorporate almost any negative feeling.
b.
inferior, inadequate. A further generalisation of the original sense of the word, used as a vogue term by teenage gang members from the late 1990s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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