Synonyms for "cool" throughout the generations?

[Floogeldy]

I think in the 40's they called something cool, "the cat's meow."

Can you name some more and what word did you/do you use?

:)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. "Well that's the bee's knees"

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[no name no slogan]

6. "That's the squirrel's scrotum"

"That's the goat's gonads"

[ulysses]

2. "crunk"

Rough translation. :)

ed. that's my kids' word, not mine.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Copestetic. sp.

:popcorn:

[MrSlayer]

4. Boss, Zeus, Awesome, Radical

Killer, Wicked, Badass.

[redwitch]

5. the livin' end

neat
keen

I still like cool the best

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. 'The cat's meow' dates to the Roaring '20s

Along with "The bee's knees" and "The snake's hips." Guess they were into anthropomorphic oddities then. :shrug:

"Bitchin'," or "bitchen" if you prefer, is a staple dating to the... '40s, I think. When I was a kid, we used "boss," "cherry," "wicked" and others. Teen years brought a new spate of drug-related euphemisms such as "far out" and "stoney," both of which I beat into the ground.

I feel old all of a sudden. :evilfrown:

[DBoon]

15. I remember "bitchen" from 1970 or so

"groovy" was considered seriously dated at that time.

I also remember "far out" from that time too.

[Katherine Brengle]

8. the cat's pajamas...

Although I preferred the rip-off/joke on Sex & the City---

"the dog's tuxedo"

[Ivan Sputnik]

9. 'Groovy' was the 60s word

of course. I like "cool," but I'm getting tired of it. Strangely enough, "that's hot" seems to mean the same thing, but it's too associated with Rome Marriott, or whatever her name is. How about "splendid"? I think that's what James Bond says.

[reyd reid reed]

10. Gnarly

I never did get that one. Boss. Rad. Those at least made some sense.

But gnarly?

Another one I don't get is 'phat'.

WTF?

I've spent my life trying to avoid phat...no matter how it's spelled (and the 'ph' is just....Wrong).

[democracyindanger]

11. 'Ex'

Short for 'excellent.' Except only girls said 'ex.' Boys said 'excellent.' Cuz that's just how things were.

[NV Whino]

12. Neat

was my cool... and still works sort of. But I like cool better. I think cool is a jazz thing and will outlast any variations.

But there are variations on cool, such as: kewl, frigid man, ice, iced.

I love slang and how it depicts a particular generation or time period.

[sakabatou]

13. "chill"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. "Hip"?

[Kat45]

16. In the Boston area, "pissa" and "wicked pissa"