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Rad

When awesome and cool just aren't enough to describe something.

Rad

by Prettykitty on Jul 27, 2003 08:47:57

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.

Example:
"Those are some rad shoes."
"Oh, RAD."

Rad

by Flaze3 on May 20, 2009 00:41:14

Abbreviation of 'radical', used to imply something different and interesting (i.e. a break from what is boring and ordinary).

Example:
'Fancy a pizza with 10 toppings?'
'That's rad, man!'

Rad

by Thomas said on Jan 30, 2020 09:43:10

It is rare to use. It's a cool slang word from the 1970s/80s. It means "awesome", "exceptional", "cool". It's something American surfers or skateboarders would say.

Example:
How are you?

Rad

Rad

by Captain|2ad on Nov 24, 2002 17:04:20

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'

Example:
Sex and Pizza are rad

Rad

by mitrooper on Sep 21, 2009 02:16:20

Shortend form of the word radical, a 100% slang word from the 1980's, used mostly in the past by people from Generation-X (people born in the late 60's early 70's) to describe something that's cool.

Apperantly lots teens today are starting to use it as well, most of 'm probably don't even know that it is a 80's slang word and if they do know, they probably are pretending that it's something of their generation.

Example:
That's a rad bike you've got.

Rad

by TheRadness on Nov 18, 2008 09:35:39

a flippant and off hand way to refer to something as being cool, awesome or otherwise great.

Commonly used in the 80's but is experiencing a resurgence particularly from the hipster fixed gear bike scene.

Example:
1. "Man, that Pista would look totally rad with a tri-wing aerospoke."

2. "Dude, did you see that guy getting totally rad on his fixie, that 180 bunny hop was off the hook".

Rad

by Batman inc. on Jan 03, 2014 19:10:37

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.

Example:
rad rapper hip hop Europe underground music beats quality

Rad

by x on Feb 01, 2003 05:25:35

Slang and/or abbreviation for the word "radical."

Example:
"Our trip to the strip club was rad!"

Rad

by Paige on Oct 02, 2002 13:48:25

Something that is cool, or very neat.

Example:
"That movie was rad!"

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