what does it mean to be “meta” about something?

Question

The title. I never understood that expression… can someone help?

Edit: auto correct on ‘someone’

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Answer 1

Simply, in this context it means ‘beyond’. So someone is being ‘beyond cool’ when they are super, extra, or uber cool.

2.

denoting position behind, after, or beyond.

“metacarpus”

3.

denoting something of a higher or second-order kind.

“metalanguage”