The prophesied king of cool, master of excellence; an individual possessing near-superhuman levels of righteousness, to the point where it becomes impossible to describe said righteousness with language or define it with modern scientific methods.
After I watched him jump off the Empire State Building on his flaming motorcycle, strangling a mountain lion with one hand while pleasuring an Amazon sex goddess with the other, I knew that Ted was no mere human being, but Gnarly McGnarlington incarnate.
A phrase originally coined in Lake Tahoe on the West Shore (Best Shore) by Marie Ralston. A play on words, a twist on "Charlie Sheen" meaning crazy, insane, unbelievable etc.
These kooks have no idea what GNARLY is. Gnarly is when you've gone beyond radical, beyond extreme, it's balls out danger, & or perfection, & or skill or all of that combined.
-Nobody can shred like that guy, he's fuckin gnarly.
-That chick has prefect tits, she's fucking gnarly.
-Pipeline in the winter is fucking GNARLY!