extra adj.
1. extraordinarily good.
🎵 Old Farmer Brown from Lancasheer says / ‘Eh, by gum, it’s extra, and the wife’s not here’. | [perf. ] ‘Daisy Dormer’||
Parm Me 9: Eh, she ain’t so extra [...] She got no shape, she got no good looks. | ||
Cop This Lot 159: ‘How did you go, Joe?’ ‘Extra, matey. Easy.’. | ||
Aussie Eng. (1966) 38: Our beer is ‘extra grouse’. | ||
‘10 Millenial Words’ in femalenetwork.com 23 May 🌐 Extra Definition: adj. Something that is over the top, excessive, overly dramatic. How to use it: ‘Oh my goodness, she actually made a cake for her dog! That's so extra!’. |
2. (N.Z.) as an intensifier.
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 43/1: extra enhancing intensive which can reverse the meaning of the parent word. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
3. (US campus) extreme; unrestrained.
UNC-CH Campus Sl. 2011 4: EXTRA — too much, excessive: ‘That girl just broke into song in the grocery store. She’s so extra.’. | (ed.)||
theculturetrip.com ‘Guide to London Slang 10 Jan. 🌐 Extra – OTT basically. | ||
Twitter 16 Feb. 🌐 Can we all just enjoy the movie without being extra? |