The friend who taught me this phrase said it meant "Sugee niteiru ( すげぇーにている )." I supposed some English equivalents would be "(someone's) double," "lookalike," doppleganger.
He taught it to me a few years ago, maybe four or five. At the time, it seemed like a newer word; I guessed that it might have been a slang term created and used by younger people, as a lot of my older students and acquaintances had never heard it and didn't understand me when I tried to use it. It didn't seem to offend anyone, as slang sometimes does. . .In fact, it brought some to laughter. I never knew why.
おつかれやま!!! (In romaji, "Otsukareyama!!!" In kanji, お疲れ山?)
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