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needs more jiggawatts 

A phrase from the film Back to the Future. It was used in the movie by the Doc to voice concern that something needs to be more powerful.

Today, we use the same phrase to explain that things need to be more powerful or better.
Jon: Dude, my MP3 player can't hold anymore songs. It's only 256MB.

Mike: Needs more jiggawatts.

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Sam: This computer is too slow.

Judy: Needs more jiggawatts.

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Mary: I bought a used Geo Metro. Needs more jiggawatts.

Beth: Hells yea.

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Sam: How do you like these wings? I made them extra spicy.

Tony: Needs more jiggawatts!

niggawatts 

Electricity produced by a blackman back in the slavery days.
Bro the power is off can you generate some niggawatts?
niggawatts by Ayahuasca69 July 9, 2019
A common 1980s-era mispronounciation of gigawatt, made infamous by Robert Zemeckis's "Back to the Future" trilogy.
jiggawatt by Ross M October 2, 2004

niggawatts 

A corruption of jigawatt intended to indicate a quantity of energy approximately equal to the normal daily amount of work performed by an american black.
The amount of niggawatts being used to repair New Orleans is insufficient for long-term goals. The application of more nigawatts will be necessary if the city is to be rebuilt.
niggawatts by Robert Bopkin September 12, 2005

jigawatt 

Unit of power used by a Flux-capicitor.
"1.21 Jigawatts ! The only thing that can produce that kind of energy is.. A bolt of lightning."
jigawatt by Woody Two Guns December 31, 2007

1.21 niggawatts 

That black girl's twerk created 1.21 niggawatts
1.21 niggawatts by DrWatsn March 15, 2014