to exaggerate for dramatic effect, usually in speech; see also Sheriff John Bunnell
I've told you a thousand times to turn that TV off!
Said at the end of a sentence when you didn't mean what you said or over exaggerated it.
What media hype, outrageous advertising, and the fans have made the super bowl into
Superbowl XLI is a perfect example of hyperbole
a bowl traveling an excess of 3-8 trillion miles per second
wow, with this new bowl we will reach new solar system easily
1) often confused with the mathematical term "hyperbola", usually by silly girls with B blood-types.
Lubely: Good job! Now draw me a hyperbole!
Derek: Silly Lubely, it's "hyperbola"!
The state in which a male (or female) is in after ejaculation.
John: That was really great, the hyperbole kind of hurt.