Party for college jerk is out of this world (8)
I believe the answer is:
galactic
'out of this world' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'party for college jerk' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'gala' (I've seen this before**).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'college' becomes 'c'.
'jerk' becomes 'tic' (I've seen this before).
'gala'+'c'+'tic'='GALACTIC'
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for galactic that I've seen before include "More than stellar" , "Of independent system of stars in space" , "Relating to large star systems" , "Relating to, eg, the Milky Way" , "Referring to the star system" .)