double-plus-good
See also: double-plus good and double plus good
English
Alternative forms
- double-plus good
- double plus good
- ++good (internet)
Etymology
Originated in Newspeak, a fictional language coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four: a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell
Adjective
double-plus-good (not comparable)
- excellent, very good
- 1992, Norman Spiney, “Info about SKREW?”, in alt.music.alternative, Usenet:
- For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!
- 1999 March 12, BAM, “Re:Use of the "J" word (RANT!)”, in alt.toys.gi-joe, Usenet:
- I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.
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