-tacular

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from spectacular.

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-tacular

  1. (slang, often ironic) Used to form adjectives denoting some type of exceptionality.
    • 2016, Jacqueline Warwick, Allison Adrian, editors, Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Sound bites from reporters said, “Miley Cyrus’s JAW-DROPPING TWERK-a-thon,” the “twerk-tacular,” “twerk-and-tongue work,” in the “twerk seen ’round the world!”

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