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Adjective
weapons-grade
- (of a radioactive or other substance) Of a purity suitable for the manufacture of weapons.
- (by extension, informal) Extreme.
- 2007, Tad Waddington, Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work, Agate Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 75:
- The idea that texts or facts speak for themselves —interpret me no interpretations—is weapons-grade stupidity.
- 2013, Andy McNab, Silencer, Transworld Publishers (2013), →ISBN, page 111:
- Three or four women sat on their own, each with a thick layer of make-up and weapons-grade hairspray.
- 2015, Sarah Morgan, First Time in Forever, HQN (2015), →ISBN, page 138:
- “Ryan is hot by the way, and by hot I am talking weapons-grade sex appeal. […]
