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  • adjective Subject to extreme hype.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ hyped

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Examples

  • Anyway, since Cowtown is only 20 miles away, Nick was all over us being superhyped about the airplanes too.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • Now everyone in my social circle is all superhyped about LOTR, and I've simply gotta get caught up.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • I fail to see how Palin meeting a few world leaders at the UN is any worse the the superhyped rock tour Obama took of Europe.

    Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 9/22/08 2008

  • Mike…I fail to see how Palin meeting a few world leaders at the UN is any worse the the superhyped rock tour Obama took of Europe.

    Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 9/22/08 2008

  • Leading the pack is Aaron Sorkin's superhyped Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, about a Saturday Night Live-type comedy show; in second is Heroes, a sci-fi drama about ordinary people who discover they have superpowers which one presumes skews a smidgen toward the Internet-geek crowd; and in fourth is Tina Fey's 30 Rock, about another SNL-type comedy show.

    NBC Gets Its Web On - Tuned In - TIME.com 2006

  • The crowd was restless and skeptical, the local custom for receiving a superhyped British import Mark Morrison, Robbie Williams, the Kooks, etc.

    NYT > Home Page By TONY GERVINO 2011

  • Many of us in the USA could not give a fig about this superhyped event with its scent of sugary, frothy, gooey commercialism, but the media industry insists that we pay attention to this raz ma taz of corporate totalitarianism.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Educated men across baseball call him the sport's best prospect, and he is an A-list celebrity in the baseball world before his first big-league game - superhyped if not superstar.

    Kentucky.com: Homepage 2009

  • Welcome to battle of the studs-round four. next week, we're superhyped right now on Twi hunks Taylor Lautner, but what gets us even more excited is the bevy of babes these two supposedly have in their ... arms.

    E! Online (US) - Top Stories 2009

  • Whether it's a chunky knit from FCUK or a skinny tie from the superhyped British import Topman, the clothes you can afford right now are the clothes you actually want to wear.

    Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles 2009

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