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to the moon

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Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

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to the moon

  1. (dated) To a very distant or unreachable place.
  2. (dated) Used as an intensifier: very, immensely, to a great extent.
    Synonym: to the moon and back
    When I saw him, he was wired to the moon. He didn't come down for two days.
  3. (slang) Towards prosperity and greatness.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  4. (cryptocurrencies, slang) Of a cryptocurrency, increasing rapidly and substantially in value.
    • 2021 July 7, Tiffany Hsu, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Cryptocurrency Seeks the Spotlight, With Spike Lee’s Help”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The marketing of this relatively new money has so far been limited mostly to ads on trade websites and targeted pushes on social media, where aficionados swap meme-fueled in-jokes about coin values rocketing to the moon.

Interjection

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to the moon

  1. (cryptocurrencies, slang) An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.