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worlds

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Noun

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worlds

  1. plural of world
  2. (colloquial) Abbreviation of world championships.
    • 1986, Motorboating, volume 158, number 1, page 90:
      The boat designs (with their fiberglass construction-the “Plastic Fantastics”) showed great speed in a breeze in the Worlds, but suffered in lighter airs.

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Adverb

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worlds (not comparable)

  1. to a great extent; much; far
    • 2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
      The show understands that implied nudity is worlds funnier than actual nudity, and goes to delightful lengths to keep Marge and Homer’s unmentionables out of view.

Verb

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worlds

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of world

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