"Absolute unit" refers to jokes made on the Internet in which people caption images of large objects or beings with a variation on the phrase, "In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit." I know, ...

What do you say when you see an especially big lad? After today, it’s “In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit.” Impressed with Morgan-Hewitt’s physical stature, @mrreptoid seems to have coined ...

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*Don’t look this up. Today, I sing my song to my favorite players at the World Cup: The brawny lads themselves, the absolute units. An absolute unit, for those of you who don’t know, is an expression ...

Turns out the Museum of English Rural Life is even more fun than it sounds. Someone over there decided to tweet out a picture of this rather impressive-looking sheep and label him an "absolute unit." ...

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