next-levelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.

派生語

• take to the next level

形容詞

next level (comparative more next level, superlative most next level)

1. Alternative form of next-level.
   • 2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, →ISBN, page 153:

     And Pharoahe and his crew definitely on some serious next level poetry type ishhh, and the next millennium rap is some next level poetry.

   • 2011, Susan Horton, A Tribute to Bullying:: "What They Call Ugly", →ISBN, page 98:

     I enjoy me some pussy, but making love to a man is some next level shit.

   • 2014, Rob Fee, Thought Catalog, I Was Raised By Television, →ISBN:

     That was some next level Twilight Zone stuff.

   • 2014, Renee Flagler, Society Wives, →ISBN:

     That was some next level shit! This weekend is going to be off the hook.