God's own

adjective

An intensifier conveying exceptionality or indispensability.

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Meanings

adjectiveGod's own (not comparable)
  1. idiomaticnot comparableAn intensifier conveying exceptionality or indispensability.

    Oscar was one of God’s own prototypes—a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production.

    1977 December 15, Hunter S. Thompson, “The Banshee Screams For Buffalo Meat”, in Rolling Stone, number 254, page 59
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    "I think you are beginning to behave just like these jerks who come from their fucking rotten training camps thinking they are God’s own fucking guerrillas."

    2011, Mirza Waheed, The Collaborator, →ISBN, page 89

    someone in the QTs wondering how many “gigs” of storage this is - my friend this is a grand total of sixty four of god’s own megabytes

    2022 July 22, @griph, Twitter, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2022

Origin

From God's own country.

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APA

God's own. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/God's%20own

MLA

“God's own.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/God's%20own. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “God's own,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/God's%20own.

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