uber
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Definition of uber
9 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Super; high-level; high-ranking.
“people in Team GameAxis are no different from the rest of us although many would think them as uber geeks”
“The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane”
“I laughed, a deep croaking noise in the uber vamp's body”
“Moreover, this is a concrete venue for all businesses or organizations to champion a distinctive or necessary cause, and thereby secure “Uber Success” (off-the-charts results) for the future of their company or organization”
“It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry series always promised but never delivered.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Super; high-level; high-ranking.
“people in Team GameAxis are no different from the rest of us although many would think them as uber geeks”
“The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane”
“I laughed, a deep croaking noise in the uber vamp's body”
“Moreover, this is a concrete venue for all businesses or organizations to champion a distinctive or necessary cause, and thereby secure “Uber Success” (off-the-charts results) for the future of their company or organization”
“It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry series always promised but never delivered.”
adv
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(not-comparable)Very; super.
“The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber rich uber witch Patti Devane”
“Admittedly, churches do some incredibly goofy things when they pursue relevance for the sake of being uber hip and ultra cool. One pastor I know got so many piercings that he looked like a rack of lures at the Bass Pro Shop”
“The film's parallel story depicts Max (Jason Patric) as an uber powerful operative, barking wild orders at right-hand man Wade (Holt McCallany)”
noun
- (alt-of, proscribed, sometimes)Alternative letter-case form of Uber, a rideshare journey, vehicle, or driver.
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A car ride requested using the mobile application Uber.
“Simply because there are more drivers who have signed up to partner with Uber than there are yellow taxis does not mean that there are more Ubers on the road.”
“It all comes back to two highly compelling moments. The moment you requested an Uber and the moment you exited the car with a mere thank-you.”
“Last week, my cousin asked me how to schedule an Uber for a morning ride to the airport. Because I drive Uber almost every night (and write stories about it), she was quite surprised that I had no idea how to do it.”
- The vehicle used for the ride.
- One's passenger or driver on Uber.
verb
- (alt-of, uncommon)Alternative letter-case form of Uber
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(intransitive, transitive)To travel by means of a mobile app-based ridesharing service, particularly but not necessarily Uber.
“Should we take the train or should we just Uber?”
“You can Uber to the event and avoid the parking problem.”
““I closed my Uber account months ago,” she told me recently. Even so, she still Ubers from time to time. In a manner of speaking. As with a lot of people I know, Medina doesn’t use Uber, but she still Ubers. When she uses ride-hailing apps—and Uber is no longer among them—she still uses the name as her chosen noun or verb because that’s just what you say now. Should we take the train or just Uber?”
“[…] “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.””
- (intransitive, uncommon)To work or be employed as a driver for Uber.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche's use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super, and hyper.
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