to the moon
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Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (dated) To a very distant or unreachable place.
- (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.
- (slang) Towards prosperity and greatness.
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- (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
[edit]- (cryptocurrencies, slang) An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.