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!
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.