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I don't understand the meaning of ダッサ in the following sentence:

> なんだこいつらダッサ面白れえ！

The context is a fight between two enemy factions. I think it is a contraction
of ダサい "uncool" but I don't understand its meaning when used before an
adjective, as in the sentence above.
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What is the meaning of ダッサ？
「ダッサ」 is a Yankee-style colloquialism for「ダサい」. It also can be used as an
interjection (same as 「くそ」、「キメェ」、「ダセぇ」, 「スケベ」、 e.t.c.).

It may be strange to see that it's combined with a such positive word like
「面白い」, but in the fact that's a common way to emphasize on both of them in the
same style of speech. You could also say 「くそ面白い」, 「くそ真面目」, e.t.c.

You will find more examples like that if you read manga a lot, or if you will
go drink booze in all-male Japanese company.
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ダッサ --> ださい

Means "uncool", "out of style" See [here](http://eitopi.com/dasai-eigo) for
more info.

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On a related note, you can often find words changed to this form for emphasis:

臭い｛くさい｝ -> クッサ！

うざい -> ウッザ！

冷たい｛つめたい｝ -> 冷たっ! <-- similar abrupt stop for emphasis
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I didn't know the word, but ダサ面白い is a trendy (new-ish) word, and was used to
describe PM Abe as Mario.

----- as ---- が、意外に、このダサ面白さ、悪くはないかも…。

> 安倍首相のマリオ姿を世界はどう報じたのか 海外メディア､ネットの反応は ... g-relations.jp/business-diary/1134/
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> 2016/08/24 -
> が、意外に、このダサ面白さ、悪くはないかも…。しばらく経つと、じわじわとそう感じ始めた。果たして、このパフォーマンスは世界が注目するイベントにおいて吉と出たのか、凶と出たのか。海外メディア、インターネットの反応を探ってみた。
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Yes ダッサ is from ダサい. Joining two arbitrary adjectives like this is
nonstandard, but native speakers occasionally do this half-jokingly. キモかわいい is
a recently established slang word coined similarly to this. See: [A different
way to join i-adjectives](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/26019/5010)

To me ダサ面白い is a made-up word (I haven't seen this before), but it should mean
something like "funny all the more for their un-coolness". I don't think ダサ is
an intensifier prefix (like 超/バカ/クソ/ド).
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