rad

rad

slang Exceptionally good, excellent, cool, or exciting. Short for the slang term "radical." That was a pretty rad concert! Wow, rad—a new bicycle! Thanks, Mom and Dad!

that's rad

slang That's exceptionally good, excellent, cool, or exciting. ("Rad" is short for the slang term "radical.") You're going to the Lady Gaga concert too? That's rad! A new bicycle? Wow, that's rad—thanks, Mom and Dad!
See also: rad
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rad

(ræd)
1. n. a radical person. (California.) My brother is a rad, but he’s a good guy.
2. mod. great; wonderful; excellent; exciting. (California. From radical.) Oh my God, that’s, like, really rad!

way rad

mod. quite excellent. (see also rad.) Oh, Tiff! That’s way rad!
See also: rad, way
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • way rad
  • that's rad
  • chedda
  • brassic lint
  • bene
  • blimp
  • blimp out
  • gun
  • guns
  • hunky
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RAD's vCPE-OS hosts virtual network functions (VNFs) from any vendor and is interoperable with all management platforms, orchestrators and operations/business support systems (OSS/BSS).
That is why Mayor de Blasio and his administration recently announced a plan to help finance the renovation of an additional 62,000 units of NYCHA housing using RAD.
RAD Urban is disrupting the construction industry with vertically integrated, manufacturing-based systems that deliver better, faster, and cheaper buildings.
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This scalable solution allows operators to spin up a myriad of virtual managed services, from security to routing, SD-WAN to IT services, and much more, stated Ulik Broida, RAD's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development.
4G networks will rely heavily on small cell deployments to provide the required capacity and coverage, said Ulik Broida, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at RAD. Small cells are already the market's fastest growing element in today's networks and are expected to feature prominently in 5G deployments as well.
Evonik's TEGO Rad 2800 is a new release additive for printing inks and varnishes.
DUBLIN -- In the next few days Tinder will change the way it connects people around the world with CEO Sean Rad revealing that a coming algorithm shift will result inAaAaAeAeAaAeAeA significantly more matches for us
Service assured access solutions provider RAD and software-defined networking provider Cyan (NYSE: CYNI) have announced that RAD has joined the Cyan Blue Orbit ecosystem of partners focused on delivering real-world, multi-vendor SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) applications.
(TASE: PLTR) said it has identified its first clinical indication in the hematology field for its Placental expanded (PLX) RAD cells for the enhancement of the engraftment of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in patients experiencing a delay or failure of their bone marrow transplant (BMT).
* RAD Background Report/123 (Eastern Europe), 31 May 1979: "Religion under <Real Socialism>.
13 -- RAD Data Communications is all set to conduct its first pre-sales and technical seminar in India.
Embarcadero Technologies have announced a preview of the soon to be released Embarcadero[R] RAD Studio XE The "2011" release will be named RAD Studio XE and will include Delphi[R] XE, C++Builder[R] XE, Delphi Prism[TM] XE and RadPHP[TM] XE.
Lesser gods co existed with Rad, including the gods Card, Orth, and Er.
Results of A competitions U16 Boys (Years 9&10) 100: 1 Jamaul Whyte (St T) 11.6; 2 Joe McLean (Corpus) 12.2; 3 Tom Mace (Plas) 12.3; 4 James Ray-Parsons (Lwt) 12.4; 5 Tom Lewis (Rad) 12.6; 6 Will Faris (Lsn) 13.4