Meanings
- idiomaticnot comparableSignificantly more advanced, better, or more extreme.
I'm in because look, there's some next-level shit going on around here, and I'm with that.
1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by James Darrell (Will Smith)3 more examples
I would give him some thugged-out braids, a wife-beater, a pair of jeans, and penny loafers. I'd bring him back on some next-level kind of flavor.
2005 August, Amy Phillips, “Q&A Missy Elliott”, in SPIN, volume 21, number 8, page 24This broad-based thinking begins to define areas that require next-level thinking, something that is a major focus of this book.
2011, Robert A. Rudzki, Robert J. Trent, Next Level Supply Management Excellence, →ISBNThis isn't that boring brown lentil mush you find in places where food goes to die. We wouldn't do you like that. The spices and lemon makes this some next-level shit that you will actually want to eat.
2014, Thug Kitchen, Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F**k, →ISBN, page 85
Translations
Spanish de otro nivel
- de otro nivelsignificantly more advanced, better, or more extreme
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