The Great Lie of “Washed”

“Washed”—a more 2018 way of saying “slightly past the prime of your coolness”—is an inherently fun bit of slang, and Zach Baron’s charming GQ piece embracing his own washed-ness is fun to read. “Recently I turned 36, but I’d say I’ve been washed for some time now,” Baron writes. Two years ago, the writer got married and moved to Los Angeles from New York. “It’s been a blur of home cooking and ‘getting into red wine,’ crossword puzzles and daily exercise,” he writes.

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