next level

plural next levels

1. A significantly more advanced or unusual state or situation.

   What we need is someone to get us to that next level. Because, guys? We've done all we can here.

   2015, Erika Kelly, You Really Got Me, →ISBN

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   We will also discuss our goal of continually advancing web search to next level by applying data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery techniques into the process of information analysis, organization, retrieval, and visualization.

   2004, Xiaofang Zhou, Web Information Systems -- WISE 2004, →ISBN

   Many of us want to go to that next level, to grasp the next rung on the ladder, to crash through the glass ceiling, but we aren't willing to stretch to get there. But truthfully, the only way we can extend ourselves to reach the next level is to move beyond our comfort zone and utilize more of our talents and capabilities.

   2005, T. D. Jakes, Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment, →ISBN

   Some relationships that can get you to your next level are partnerships. Joining forces with other women or with men can help to bring your vision into fruition even earlier.

   2014, Traverro Harden-Ali, Next Level Woman Series: Black, Female, & Rising, →ISBN

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see next, level.

comparative more next level · superlative most next level

1. alternativeAlternative form of next-level.

   That was some next level Twilight Zone stuff.

   2014, Rob Fee, Thought Catalog, I Was Raised By Television, →ISBN

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   And Pharoahe and his crew definitely on some serious next level poetry type ishhh, and the next millennium rap is some next level poetry.

   2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, →ISBN, page 153

   I enjoy me some pussy, but making love to a man is some next level shit.

   2011, Susan Horton, A Tribute to Bullying:: "What They Call Ugly", →ISBN, page 98

   That was some next level shit! This weekend is going to be off the hook.

   2014, Renee Flagler, Society Wives, →ISBN

   Dan Bongino[…] tweeted: “The pearl clutching over a joke, made by a UFC heavyweight known for his post fight stand up comedy acts, is next level hypocrisy.

   2026 June 16, David Smith, quoting Dan Bongino, “Trump facing pressure to condemn UFC fighter for disparaging Michelle Obama”, in The Guardian, →ISSN