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cool
adjective- fashionable, attractive, admired US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- He had been half-heartedly trying to explain to her what was suggested by the term “cool,” as hipsters used it. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 173, 1952
- I learned the new hipster vocabulary; “pot” for weed, “twisted” for busted, “cool,” an all-purpose word indicating anything you like or any situation that is not hot with the law. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 120, 1953
- Things were “cool” and cool things “gassed” the initiates and anything that was particularly cool was “crazy.” — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 287, 1956
- [N]ow it is no longer 1948 but 1953 with cool generations and I five years older, or younger[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 9, 1958
- acceptable, agreeable US
- BUTCH: So we’re cool. MARSELLUS: Yeah man, we’re cool — Pulp Fiction, 1994
- I guess he’s pretty, huh, racially pretty cool. — The Big Lebowski, 1998
- My friend and I were messing about with a gun and I accidentally shot him in the face [...] But we’re cool. We’re still good friends. — The Times Magazine, p. 44, 23 February 2002
- I’m sure you’ve got a million things you want to do to me, and I’m very cool with that, and I’ll probably love it, okay? — Dennis Cooper, The Sluts, p. 180, 2006
- (of jazz or the style of a jazz performer) relaxed, good, modern US
- — Cool Blues, 19 February 1947
- — The Observer, 16 September 1956
- discreet, under control UK, 1952
Similar to the earlier COOL AS A CUCUMBER- Staying cool in Marrakesh would be like Alice not falling down a well. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 233, 1970
- retaining complete personal control of the need for drugs or, whilst drug-exhilarated, so the user believes UK
- — John Wyatt, Drugs, 1973
- not carrying illegal drugs UK
- — The Observer, 3 December 1967
- used for emphasising an amount of money UK, 1728
- Depending on the size of the casino and the day of the week, that sum can fluctuate between a half-million and a cool million dollars, sheer cash. — Edward Lin, Big Julie of Vegas, p. 80, 1974
- “Wot’s it worth, Johnny?” “A cool fifty grand, Rag! The boss knows how to pick ‘em, eh?” — The Sweeney, p. 54, 1976
- Ingram played by George Clooney in Ocean’s 11-type conman mode, liberating a cool million from the people who have encouraged a nation to daydream of fast bucks and obscene wealth. — Guardian, 22 April 2003
▶ cool like Gokool
very successful TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1938- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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