Definition
Describing someone who operates on another level, possessing exceptional qualities or tolerance that normal people lack. The explanation for when someone does something that should be impossible or inadvisable.
Example Usage
He sleeps 3 hours a night and still goes to the gym—he's just built different.
Origin
From sports culture, describing athletes with unusual abilities, spread to general internet usage around 2020
Fun Fact
The phrase is often used sarcastically about people making terrible life choices, as if genetic superiority explains poor decision-making.
Source: Sports culture and Twitter
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See “built different” in Corporate Speak, Gen-Z Slang, Pirate Speak, and more.
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