What words meant "beyond cool" when you were a kid?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238306)
Walnut Creek, California
December 30, 2019 1:10pm CST
A discussion on MyLot led to this post. I may have asked about this before, but it's on my mind this morning, so I'll post about it.
When you were young, did you have "slang" works for "beyond cool" or "most excellent"?
When I was six or seven, in the 1960s, a really good episode of "Lost in Space" would be described as "boss!" or even "doom!"
When I was a teenager, we might say "rad!" as in "That concert was rad!"
When I started working with kids, I heard words like "fresh" and, more recently, "dope."
One eleven-year-old kid I worked with got in trouble at school for using the word "dope" (dope CAN mean drugs), but I think his teacher (a fellow male!) overreacted.
Did you have certain words in your life that meant, or mean, "way cool" or "beyond cool"?
9 people like this
10 responses
@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
30 Dec 19
JJ is right...Far out! Cool (I still use that). Groovy. Fab.
3 people like this
@BarBaraPrz (51819)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Dec 19
Can't say as I did. Things were either cool or not cool. There was no beyond. Some things were groovy, though.
1 person likes this
@BarBaraPrz (51819)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Dec 19
@TheHorse I even wore flowers in my hair.
1 person likes this
@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 19
@BarBaraPrz I admit that I love this song!
Song: San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) Artist: Scott McKenzie - This video is purely fan made! I don't own anything. All rights belong to...
1 person likes this
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
30 Dec 19
Totally, for sure, and Bomb Diggity were my generations "cool" words.
Oh, and of course "The Bomb!"
1 person likes this
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
30 Dec 19
@TheHorse "da bomb" is really what we would say, but I think replacing "the" with "da" has been done for years.
1 person likes this
@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Dec 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I think so too. I like teaching the littlies I work with the "old terms." So I sometimes use "boss" or "doom" around them to see if they'll repeat it.
1 person likes this
@isweartokira (3459)
• United States
31 Dec 19
I remember Leet and Hella, though I guess those were more on the internet than in day to day conversation. both were pretty stupid in my opinion. Others were Sweet, Mega, Major, and Da Bomb. I just called things Cool 
1 person likes this
