ultimate boss
- noun
- Jargon
:
jefe final
- The ultimate boss was incredibly challenging to defeat.
Examples
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In many role-playing games, the ultimate boss has unique abilities that require special strategies.
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After hours of playing, he finally defeated the ultimate boss and completed the game.
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Facing the ultimate boss was much harder than any of the previous challenges.
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Have you faced the ultimate boss in that game?
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After defeating several enemies, I finally reached the ultimate boss of the game.
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In each level, players must defeat stronger foes before facing the ultimate boss.
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The ultimate boss had unique powers that made the final battle challenging.
Synonyms
5
7.8
A person's main enemy who often opposes them
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6.0
The last and hardest enemy in a video game you must beat to finish the story
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8.0
The main enemy in a story who is very powerful and evil
The main enemy at the end of a story who the heroes must defeat
How Difficult
- Jargon
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'ultimate' (final, most extreme) modifying 'boss' (a leader/opponent), yielding 'the final or most important/difficult boss' in a game. The gaming sense of 'boss' is a straightforward extension of 'boss' as leader and this modifier+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Ultimate boss comes from video games, where a boss is a big enemy and an ultimate boss is the last and strongest foe you fight. So, the phrase means 'the final or most difficult opponent' because it is the last challenge you must beat.