ˈendsville, n. U.S. slang.
Also Endville, Endsville.
[f. end n. 1 d (b): see -ville.]
a. The greatest, the best; the imaginary home of good things or people.
| 1957 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Aug. 26/1 Endville (obs.) means the best. 1959 Esquire Nov. 70/1 Endsville, the greatest. 1960 Amer. Speech XXXV. 313 Endsville..refers to the home of a person, in this case that of a brilliant one (‘He's the end from Endsville’). |
b. = the end of the road s.v. end n. 3 h; also, ‘the limit’, ‘the end’ (sense 1 d).
| 1962 Radio Times 17 May 43 Endsville man, I got no bread. 1969 Time 21 Nov. 48/3 At the windup of his two-week tour, Soviet Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy announced that New York was strictly Endsville: ‘Saturated. Tense. Not fun at all.’ 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 June 722/1 In a more depressing sense, however, a Last Frontier can be the last place left to go, a last chance, a forlorn hope, endsville. 1984 F. Sinatra in J. Rockwell Sinatra 231 You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but the audience is like a broad—if you're indifferent, endsville. |