next-level

adjective

Significantly more advanced, better, or more extreme.

Meanings

adjectivenext-level (not comparable)
  1. 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 24

    This 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, →ISBN

    This 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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