hyperfancy

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English

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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ fancy.

Adjective

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hyperfancy (comparative more hyperfancy, superlative most hyperfancy)

  1. (informal) Very fancy.
    • 2010, Randy Washburn, Barbara Kreger Washburn, Cruise Into Darkness, page 80:
      Ken stared, open mouthed. “Wow, Dad. You look...hyperfancy! Nice threads!”
    • 2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times[1]:
      REMEMBER: The Beatles’ ‘‘Revolution 9’’ took as its starting point a long, edited-out coda to ‘‘Revolution 1’’ and became nothing less than hyperfancy musique concrète when the band added heterogeneous sound clips, tape loops, back-masking and sound effects.