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(orig. US) a qualitative intensifier, e.g. craptastic.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Dly News (Lebanon, PA) 2 Apr. 13/6: [advert] 14 Fabtastic song hits! Brian Epstein presnents Gerry and the Pacemakers. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Guardian 8 Feb. 15/4: One oif the greatest snogtastic advantages of the big smooch is that there are no rules. | |
| Hope College ‘Dict. of New Terms’ 🌐 craptastic adj. Extremely disagreeable or unpleasant. [...] ‘I just found out about a huge exam tomorrow. Isn’t that just craptastic.’. | |
| Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 13: fannytastic adj. Anything wonderful to do with female genitals. [Ibid.] 14: funbagtastic exclm. Upon seeing a glorious pair of breasts, one might utter ‘Funbagtastic!’. | |
| Observer Escape 22 Aug. 2: It is an astonishingly romantic place, and consequently full of couples [...] the snog-tastic party continued around me. | |
| Guardian Sport 13 May 12: ‘Poptastic, mate,’ he says when I hand over the bev. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 smacktastic Definition: either describing or implying the use of force of the backhand on a defiant prostitute or any other woman. Example: Ho, slow your roll less I get smacktastic on yo ass! | |
| Observer 27 Feb. 29: Maybe they’d swing behind the shagtastic Tory. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Province (Vancouver) 11 June 19/2: He was branded ‘snog-tastic’ — or very kissable — by Just Seventeen magazine. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 3: fratastic [...] Those croakies (holders for sunglasses) are so fratastic. | |
| Greenville News (SC) 16 Nov. 5B/3: Ypu Don’t Have to Be a Star to Learn to Dance Shagtastic! Call for a complimentary lesson. | |
 | News Jrnl (Wilmington, DE) 12 Sept. 74/2: My pillow [...] has to be mushy enough [...] or else [...] I’ll wake up in a crank-tastic mood with a kink in my neck. | |
| Bad Sex on Speed 115: JFK and Van [sic] Braun were doing the same drugs. Crank-Tastic! | |
| Province (Vancouver) 2 Nov. 15/1: The joke is definitely on Bond, whose thuggish, shagtastic [...] is seriously undermined by [...] director Sam Mendes. | |
| Democrat & Chron. (Rochester, NY) 9 Dec. B1/4: Radio host Toby Knapp called the new tolls [...] ‘craptastic’ in a tweet. |