amazeballs
Americanadjective
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amazing.
This place is amazeballs!
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amazed.
I'm amazeballs that you did that for me.
interjection
Etymology
Origin of amazeballs
2000–05; amaze + -balls (used as an intensifier)
Example Sentences
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The comment added: "We have legendary actresses here giving the worst performances of their careers, it takes a special kind of talent to pull that inability of them. Amazeballs."
From BBC
McPherson, a senior editor of new words responsible for adding “amazeballs” to the dictionary, said the act may have become more noticeable in the recent warm weather that many are experiencing, and the word has probably gained popularity amid internet meme culture.
From Washington Post
“Namaste! That crowd, right? Amazeballs. The campaign’s going super good. Top of the polls! Me and Nur, only two weeks from victory day. Don’t I look fetch in fuchsia? Thanks for coming all this way. Let me close this door … There. 🎵 Just the two of us. 🎵Feels like ages. Have you been working out? Your aura’s so gangster.”
From New York Times
This is how we got “fashionista” – coined by Stephen Freid in a 1993 biography of the supermodel Gia – and “amazeballs”, first used publicly by the fashion blogger Elizabeth Spiridakis Olson in 2008.
From The Guardian
"Which means 'you only live once'. I loved that one. And amazeballs, I liked that for a while."
From BBC
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