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Absolute Unit Meaning?

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Absolute Unit A superlative phrase used to describe someone or something unusually large, massive, or impressive in scale.

Origin:The phrase predates its famous sheep association: it began December 13, 2017, when X user @mrreptoid captioned a photo of hotelier David Morgan-Hewitt "Absolute unit." It was driven to mass virality by the UK's Museum of English Rural Life, which tweeted a 1962 photo (originally published in Farmer and Stockbreeder Magazine) of a large ram on April 9, 2018, captioned similarly — that tweet, not a government account, is what made the phrase explode.
First Seen:2017-12
Peak Era:April 2018 (mass virality)
Aura Impact:+2 Aura (using it on something genuinely massive) / -2 Aura (using it on something merely average-sized)

EXAMPLE USAGE

"That dog is an absolute unit."

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