<entry id="2188948" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2854875</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>オブ・ザ・イヤー</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>オブザイヤー</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<gloss>of the year</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2022-06-03 19:53:49" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Obviously gets a lot of usage in relation to things like "Time's
Person of the Year," but I think this is becoming more popular in a
colloquial / slang sense to mean something like "incredibly" or
"extremely" (眠いオブザイヤー；かわいいオブザイヤー). I don't know if
that needs to be explicitly documented in an entry here, but I thought
it would be worth mentioning. A twitter search brings up a ton of
hits.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| オブザイヤー　　 | 13,965 |
| オブ・ザ・イヤー | 68,700 |</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-03 22:51:03" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>