next-level

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next-level (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Significantly more advanced, better, or more extreme.
   • 1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by James Darrell (Will Smith):

     I'm in because look, there's some next-level shit going on around here, and I'm with that.

     [James Darrell accepts an offer to join a secret organization concerned with the presence of aliens on Earth]

   • 2005 August, Amy Phillips, “Q&A Missy Elliott”, in SPIN, volume 21, number 8, page 24:

     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.

   • 2011, Robert A. Rudzki, Robert J. Trent, Next Level Supply Management Excellence, →ISBN:

     This broad-based thinking begins to define areas that require next-level thinking, something that is a major focus of this book.

   • 2014, Thug Kitchen, Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F**k, →ISBN, page 85:

     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.