used to describe the material that something you cant find is made out of, like hard to find car parts.
those taillights must be made of unobtanium, i cant find them anywhere
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That which cannot be obtained; theoretical but not yet real.
It may have come from the movie "The Core," when Delroy Lindo is describing the ship needed to go to the Earth's core, which can only theoretically be built. When someone asks him what it would be made of, he said, "The real name has 37 syllables, but I just call it... unobtanium."
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30 series GPUs in April 2021
"Did you get a new GPU?"
"No, scalpers took them all. They're practically considered unobtanium at this point"
Something which is completely unobtainable or extremely rare.
You may never ever get this, this is unobtanium
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The mythical pool table at work that does not exist.
"The only thing left to turn this office into a bar is, unfortunately, unobtanium." -Bik