Rad
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An abbreviation of radical--a term made popular by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Still primarily used by people on the West Coast who find words like cool, awesome, and tight to be tired and overused; rad is generally considered to be a much higher praise than the aforementioned superlatives. Also used as a general expression of awe.
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really [cool], but in a more subtle way. as opposed to [extreme] or [awesome]. one of the highest compliments you can give someone. being rad is like being cool without having to work for it. its like a natural coolness.
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the word used to describe something when u must describe it as positively as possible. Rad is the strongest alternative, and stronger than the word, cool
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Shortend form of the word [radical], a 100% slang word from the 1980s, used mostly in the past by people from [Generation-X] (people born in the late 60s early 70s) to describe something thats cool.
Apperantly lots teens today are starting to use it as well, most of m probably dont even know that it is a 80s slang word and if they do know, they probably are pretending that its something of their generation.
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a unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, corresponding to the absorption of 0.01 joule per kilogram of the absorbing material.
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A young rapper from northern Europe. Born in 1997. Makes his own music videos and beats. Very underground, sometimes uses famous or underground beats. Usually very low budget but still best quality production. On the internet and other media sources he uses his name often with Hip-Hop behind it like: Rad Hip-Hop or RadHipHop for twitter and so on.
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Slang and/or abbreviation for the word radical.
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Something that is cool, or very neat.
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a flippant and off hand way to refer to something as being [cool], [awesome] or otherwise [great].
Commonly used in the 80s but is experiencing a resurgence particularly from the hipster fixed gear bike scene.
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its like saying [über] cool.
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really [cool], but in a more subtle way. as opposed to [extreme] or [awesome]. one of the highest compliments you can give someone. being rad is like being cool without having to work for it. its like a natural coolness.
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When [awesome] and cool just arent [enough] to describe something.
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