Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Contemporary (2000–) ·2010
Amazeballs
amazing balls
- Meaning
- Extremely impressive; wonderful (emphatic slang).
- Source words
- amazing + balls
- Coined by
- disputed (Jessica Zaino or Perez Hilton)
- Year
- 2010
Background
Claimed by both fashion stylist Jessica Zaino and blogger Perez Hilton. Peaked around 2012; the word is now strongly associated with a specific moment in US pop-blog English and is often used ironically.
Contemporary (2000–)
Faster coinage, faster canonisation. Brexit and podcast both reached the OED within a decade of first use — historically rapid. Social media has made visibility, not invention, the rate-limiting step.
Two words, one coinage.
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