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planet
noun
when combined with a personal characteristic or interest, applied to a person’s narrow or exclusive focus on that characteristic or interest UK
A remote place that it is hard to contact.- “After years of living on Planet Football, spending money they didn’t have and expecting tomorrow to take care of tomorrow, clubs now realise they have to change to survive,” says [Jon] Smith. — The Observer, 2 December 2001
- [H]e had definitely emigrated to Planet Paranoid for good. — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 116, 2002
▶ on another planet
very drug-intoxicated UK- [T]hey were very tight amongst their own, whacked out on another planet but still aware of their like-minded buddies[.] — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 11, 1999
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