zero-cool

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English

Adjective

zero-cool (comparative more zero-cool, superlative most zero-cool)

  1. (dated, informal) Very cool (trendy, fashionable, pleasing, etc.)
    • 1965, Corpsman (volume 1, issue 2, page 9)
      SINGER DIONNE WARWICK believes her younger sister, Dee Dee, has the makings of a zero-cool singer.
    • 1998, Gus Russo, Live by the Sword, page 242:
      Investigative journalist Jim Hougan accurately described Bellino as a "zero-cool, behind-the-scenes figure in the Kennedy organization."
    • 2023, Stuart Cosgrove, The Complete Soul Trilogy: eBook Bundle:
      She blazed a trail for new wave and became a zero-cool gay rights activist in an industry still jittery about open declarations of sexuality.

See also

References

  • Tony Thorne (2014) “zero-cool”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  : Bloomsbury
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