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gear
adjective
very good, outstanding UK, 1951
Brought to the world by the Beatles, dropped from fashionable use in the mid-1960s; revived in the UK, later C20, and continues in ironic use.- JOHN [LENNON] touches the costume on one actor. JOHN: (to actor) Gear costume! ACTOR: (eyeing him) Swap? — A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
- — J. R. Friss, A Dictionary of Teenage Slang (Mt. Diablo High), 1964
- “No. We never expected anything like this–it was really fear.” “Gear?” “Fab,” he explained, translating quickly from his native Beatle-ese, “you know–really great.” — Life, p. 34, 21 February 1964
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 53, 1965
- — Fritz Spiegl, Lern Yerself Scouse, 1966
- “It was so gear, I cried.” — Murray Kaufman, Murray the K Tells It Like It Is, Baby, p. 27, 1966
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