"make fetch happen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the 2004 film Mean Girls, in which the character Gretchen Wieners repeatedly uses fetch as a synonym for cool, leading another character to tell her to \"stop trying to make fetch happen.\"",
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      "form": "makes fetch happen",
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    {
      "form": "made fetch happen",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2017, Mark Lazerus, Denis Savard, If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Blackhawks, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Teuvo Teravainen was Turbo in Rockford, and despite the best efforts of Jonathan Toews—er, Tazer—to make Fetch happen, it never stuck in Chicago.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both, unnumbered page",
          "text": "I was born 'James', and despite Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively trying to make fetch happen, James remains very much a boy's name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Richard McElreath, Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and S, unnumbered page",
          "text": "The term “trank plot” is my own. I'm trying to make fetch happen.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He’ll rage and then head over Parler to try to make fetch happen, which will not satisfy his enormous ego. It will all end in a whimper.",
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        "To try to make something catch on."
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          "catch on",
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        "(slang, humorous) To try to make something catch on."
      ],
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        "Mean Girls"
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  "word": "make fetch happen"
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Juno Dawson, The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both, unnumbered page",
          "text": "I was born 'James', and despite Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively trying to make fetch happen, James remains very much a boy's name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Richard McElreath, Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and S, unnumbered page",
          "text": "The term “trank plot” is my own. I'm trying to make fetch happen.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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      ],
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  "word": "make fetch happen"
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