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double-plus-good

double-plus-good adjective: excellent; very good.

Adjective

double-plus-good (not comparable)

  1. Excellent; very good.
    • For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!1992, Norman Spiney, “Info about SKREW?”, in alt.music.alternative (Usenet)
    • I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.1999 March 12, "BAM", “Re:Use of the "J" word (RANT!)”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet)

Examples of double-plus-good in a sentence

  • We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise.1999, Alan A. Grometstein, “Bells Thunderbolt 1964”, in The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics, →ISBN, page 511:
  • Nudging the nearly-closed bedroom door secret-agent style, I saw on the bed the double-plus-good definition of inviting.2005, Rand Clifford, Timing, →ISBN, page 384:

Antonyms of double-plus-good

Forms of double-plus-good

alternative formdoubleplusgood
alternative formdouble-plus good
alternative formdouble plus good
alternative form++good

Origin of double-plus-good

Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Questions about double-plus-good

What does double-plus-good mean?
Double-plus-good means excellent; very good.
How do you use double-plus-good in a sentence?
We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise.
What part of speech is double-plus-good?
Double-plus-good is an adjective.

Words near double-plus-good in the dictionary

  1. double-penetrate
  2. double-play
  3. double-plays
  4. double-plus good
  5. double-plus ungood
  6. double-plus-good
  7. double-plus-ungood
  8. double-pointed needle
  9. double-pole
  10. double-pole technique
  11. double-poled

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