on steroids
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
To a greater degree, exaggerating the characteristics of the previously named object.
Informal
prep_phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, steroids.
Example Sentences
- "Panic is anxiety on steroids"
- "When a processor is running in real mode, it acts like an "8088 on steroids". What this means is that it has the advantage of speed, but it otherwise accesses memory with the same restrictions of the original 8088: a limit of 1 MB of addressable RAM, and slow memory access that doesn't take advantage of the full 32-bit processing of modern CPUs."
- ""This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn's rings are today," Mamajek said at the time. "You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn." Or, as others have put it, Saturn on steroids."
- "Medellín, the first track from Madonna’s 14th studio album, arrived like La Isla Bonita on steroids"