monster adj.
1. (US) great in size, quantity, significance or achievement.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Flying for France 55: Now and then monster projectiles hurtling through the air close by leave one’s plane rocking violently in their wake. | |
| Chicago Defender 22 Sept. 5: All the Chicago musicians, music lovers and friends are anxiously awaiting the great musicale [...] Dr. Wm. D. Cook will welcome the monster crowd. | |
 | (con. WW1) American Fighters in the Foreign Legion 200: The Escadrille protected a monster bombing raid across the Rhine on October 12, and took part in an aerial battle in which hundreds of Allied and German planes were engaged. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | May the Twelfth: Mass-Observation Day-Surveys 3:83: ‘Biggest blaze I’ve seen’ (it certainly is a monster blaze). | |
| Sweet Ride 89: They’re throwing a monster blast over on East Latego. | |
| Stay Hungry 145: I just shot it up and sat there laughing at this spade I was with while I had this monster flash, like creamin off in my head. | |
| Because the Night 18: He [...] pulls out a monster hand-cannon and demands the money. | |
| ‘Waterway’ in A Day at the Beach (1992) 229: She’d seen some twenty-year-old carrying around a monster load of worry and bad luck. | |
| Reach 111: I find Patricia chopping up monster lines of whizz with her Barclaycard. | |
| Slim & None 188: [He] sank a monster putt for a par. |
2. (US black) annoying, irritating.
| Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 4: I wish that chick in zero position refrain from chewing gum and making with the floorshow! You know it’s most monster when you are trying to dig the happenings and all of a sudden everybody acts like a P-80 take off. |
3. (US black) excellent, first-rate, the very best.
| Queens’ Vernacular 210: monster weed superb marijuana. | |
| Muscle for the Wing 88: It’s a flat-out monster drink. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 125: This is monster herb. |