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What does gnarly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gnarly? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled.
  2. (slang) Excellent; attractive.
  3. (slang, US) Dangerous; difficult.
  4. (slang, US) Unpleasant, awful, ugly.
    1. (slang, US) Of music or a sound: harsh.
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He's a gnarly little old Aussi with a big voice who's done a lot of living and has the ballads to prove it.
Beeswax melts at a higher temperature than something like paraffin and you could actually give yourself some gnarly blisters this way.
It's almost as if it wants to shoulder some of the responsibility for the gnarly places it is taking you to.
La Sportiva is now making bouldering shoes with a Vibram rubber covering to assist with toe-hooking on gnarly problems.
Inside the house, near the hearth, a gnarly old maple stands in rough-hewn opposition to the sleek columns fore and aft.
The tree itself had been small and gnarly, withered and twisted like the arthritic seizure of an old man.

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