rad

Something that is really "cool", abreviation for the word radical.

Dang your outfits very rad today.

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Rad

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.

How are you?

Rad

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rad

awesome; cool usually surfer slang

surfer guy just nailed a wave

"dude that wave was so rad!"

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Rad

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'

Sex and Pizza are rad

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Rad

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.

That's a rad bike you've got.

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rad

a unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, corresponding to the absorption of 0.01 joule per kilogram of the absorbing material.

That hippo just absorbed exactly 1.3 rads of radiation.

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Rad

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.

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".

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