noun

• (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
• (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
  "The headline was set in bold type."
• (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
  "...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens"
• (medicine) A blood group.

adv

• (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.
  "I don't think Brooklyn slang is that different from Manhattan slang. But I'm not used to a lot of the slang my friends use. Months ago, I first heard, "There are mad heads here." I was like, "Where did that come from?" For a while they were saying, "That's type funny." I was like: "What? What do you mean by that?" It means "very funny." Or they were like, "That's dumb stupid." I'm like, "That's redundant.""