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You unfollowed her for posting cat memes? You're so extra!
Wow, you're more extra than she is. You're the most extra friend I have.
2017, Yael Livneh, "Whole Foods", in "Get The Inside Soup: Staffers Review Local Soup Stops", 3 February 2017, page 23:
I highly recommend getting some more bread on the side—they offer small loaves and soup crackers for free, but I'm so extra, I bought my own loaf.
2017 November, Claire Craig, “#Instabeauty”, in Northern Woman, page 48:
Shattered glass, pierced, bejewelled, chromed and glittered - nails are going totally extra on Insta at the minute and we approve.
2019, Michelle Spottswood, quoted in Kirby Myers, "Does Christmas in your house start before or after Thanksgiving", Key West Weekly, 21 November 2019, page 7:
Two months of Christmas trees, Christmas movies and Christmas music brings so much fun to our home, we are so extra with it!
person in a play or movie with a minimal part — see walk-on
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extra (strong nominative masculine singularextraer, not comparable)
(colloquial)Alternative form of extra-(“extra, special, additional”)
Das is’n ganz extra Rezept von meiner Mutter. ― This is a very special recipe of my mother’s.
Usage notes
In formal standard German, extra- is a prefix attached to the following noun. In colloquial German, however, it is often treated like a real adjective. The substantival (or partitive) form used with indefinite pronouns may also take -s: wasExtras (“something additional, something on top”).
extra in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
extra in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
“extra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“extra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
extra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
to pass the limit: extra modum prodire
beyond all measure: extra, praeter modum
to be free from blame: extra culpam esse
to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse
extra in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016