Anti-word of the day
Copious - deeply overused word meaning - quite simply - 'lots of'.
Most often heard in conjunction with a noun depicting something the speaker/writer considers to be cool, edgy or taboo, e.g. "Lets go out on Friday and drink copious amounts of alcohol", or "we grow copious amounts of ganga, yeah?". Note how the speaker in the first example has joined "copious" with another device; that of using longer words than are necessary. This is an attempt - presumably - to sound intelligent. Hence "lets go out on Friday and drink copious amounts of alcohol" can be translated into non-irritating English as "lets go out on Friday and get drunk", or "lets go out on Friday and drink lots of beer".