endsvillen.
U.S. slang.
a. The greatest, the best; the imaginary home of good things or people.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being the best > [noun] > best thing or person
highesteOE
bestOE
greatest?c1225
pridec1330
crestc1400
primrosea1450
outrepass1477
A per sea1500
primrose peerless1523
prisec1540
prime1579
surquidry1607
excellency1611
nonsuchc1613
crown jewel1646
top1665
patriarch1700
pièce de résistance1793
number one1825
business1868
resistance piece1870
star1882
mostest1889
koh-i-noor1892
best-ever1905
flagship1933
the end1950
endsville1957
Big Mac1969
mack daddy1993
1957 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Aug. 26/1 Endville (obs.) means the best.
1959 Esquire Nov. 70/1 Endsville, the greatest.
1960 Amer. Speech 35 313 Endsville..refers to the home of a person, in this case that of a brilliant one (‘He's the end from Endsville’).
b. = the end of the road at end n. 3h; also, ‘the limit’, ‘the end’ (sense 1d.)
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the very end
last end?c1225
the farc1540
the far endc1540
faga1627
the last word1842
the end of the road1954
endsville1962
1962 Radio Times 17 May 43 Endsville man, I got no bread.
1969 Time 21 Nov. 48/3 At the windup of his two-week tour, Soviet Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy announced that New York was strictly Endsville: ‘Saturated. Tense. Not fun at all.’
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 June 722/1 In a more depressing sense, however, a Last Frontier can be the last place left to go, a last chance, a forlorn hope, endsville.
1984 F. Sinatra in J. Rockwell Sinatra 231 You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but the audience is like a broad—if you're indifferent, endsville.
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