Meanings
worlds1
- pluralplural of world
- abbreviationcolloquialAbbreviation of world championships.
The boat designs (with their fiberglass construction-the “Plastic Fantastics”) showed great speed in a breeze in the Worlds, but suffered in lighter airs.
1986, Motorboating, volume 158, number 1, page 90
- figurativelynot comparableTo a great extent; much; far.
The show understands that implied nudity is worlds funnier than actual nudity, and goes to delightful lengths to keep Marge and Homer’s unmentionables out of view.
2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of world
Worlds2
Origin
Unidentified origin.
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