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What does "Bock" mean?

Being up for something — "Bock haben" = to feel like it.

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🇩🇪 German
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How it's actually used

"Hast du Bock?" is "are you up for it?" and "keinen Bock" means you cannot be bothered — one of the most common things young Germans say.

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Where it comes from

Literally a male goat; the idiom likely comes from Romani "bokh" (hunger).

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