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What's a word that's code for 'expensive'?
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Groceries
AI
All my homies HATE AI
Anything marine or aeronautical
"Made with ingedients you can pronounce"
If you took the time to expand your vocabulary you wouldn't need to pay a premium.
Bespoke
Kids
Luxurious
When I say to a client "this is a particularly complex area" it means they gonna pay.
"Contact us for pricing."
If you have to ask, you can't afford it
POA == Piss off, assholes.
Financing available
Curated
One of a kind
Invitation only
NSN#
Select, bespoke, artisanal, reserve
Boutique. Designer. Choice. Select. Prime
3 of those are grades of steak
Apple and Mac come to mind.
The mini is actually a pretty good buy but it’s hardly how Apple has historically priced things.
French words outside France.
To add: French words outside of French speaking countries (like GiorgioPerlasca said)
... Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and former French colonies.
Premium.
Oddly enough, I've always associated claims of being premium in advertising with it actually being garbage.
I think it definitely has gotten a tarnished reputation. But even modern software tiers are standard, advanced, premium and premium means you get all the features at a huge price
I always see premium nowadays as “not the absolute bottom of the barrel”
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Premium hotel room: not the cupboard in the basement with a single mattress and a broken TV but the next one up. No view or anything though unless you upgrade to a deluxe or higher
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Premium economy seat on a flight: basically cattle class but with one inch extra leg room and fake leather seat cushions. Still can’t lie down or access better loos like in business or first class
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Premium spirits: supermarket own-brand spirits but in a glass bottle rather than the super cheap shit they sell in plastic bottles
Etc…
Exactly. It's a variant of "military grade" for those products where it would sound odd.
In my job, I need to use materials that have a mil spec; that means it's literally military grade, but it's just saying that it meets or exceeds a certain specification for X product that is used in the military in some way. IMO, if something says 'military grade', but isn't listing the mil spec(s) that it complies to, then it's essentially meaningless.
I do have a compass that I think was advertised as military grade. It's the same lensatic compass that is currently used by the military (...when they aren't using GPS...), except that it doesn't use tritium on the face. The half-life of tritium is about a decade, so it didn't seem like a great idea to pay a ton extra for something that would barely glow in the dark in 20 years or so.
Market price
Enterprise
enterprise-grade
Galaxy class
Organic
Executive
Custom
Exclusive, luxury
R-r-r-r-r-itzy!
“Name Brand”
I’ll come back tomorrow
"Is there anything I can help you with?" "I'm just window shopping"
Lemme think about it and circle back
Swank Bougie Highbrow
Hand made
Hand crafted
Bespoke
Depends on the context ie: Out of our price range vs “We live comfortably”
I’m friends with Epstein
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this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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