What is High Key?
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when somethin needs to be said outloud so every can here; opposite of low key
aye high key tho, that female is extra fine
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when someone or something is riskayy and/ or likely to get
Drinking a keystone with a car full or people blasting music with the windows down late at night is high key.
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High-Key
If we say a painting is "high-key" we mean that most or all of the image is light or pale in value. For example, colours mixed with white, called "pastels" or "tints", are high-key. It's the opposite of "low-key", of course.
"That painting is very high-key!"