Tag

#praise

14 words tagged “praise”

Chanme
adjective

Verlan for 'mechant' (wicked) — flipped to mean awesome or sick, like English 'wicked'.

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Solid Sender
noun

A swell person or a tune that 'sends' you, thrilling you to your core.

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Endsville
noun

The ultimate — the absolute end of the line in the best possible way.

#beatnik#1950s#beat-generation#vintage
Ill
adjective

So good it's almost wrong, the kind of skill that flips 'sick' into a compliment.

#hip-hop#old-school#1980s#vintage
Righteous
adjective

Genuinely fine, excellent, the real thing, beyond reproach.

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The Most
phrase

The absolute best — the height of cool, with nothing better above it.

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Killer-Diller
noun

Something so good it knocks you out, the absolute height of excellence.

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Ripper
adjective

Excellent, fantastic — 'you little ripper!' is pure Aussie joy.

#aussie#praise#casual
The Bomb
noun

The absolute best, the standout, the thing everybody's talking about.

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Kewl
adjective

A jokey respelling of 'cool', signalling playful or ironic approval online.

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Dope
adjective

Excellent, top quality, the highest grade, flipped from drug slang into pure praise.

#hip-hop#old-school#1980s#vintage
Gasser
noun

Something or someone tremendously good, the most, an absolute riot.

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Roxxor
verb

Leetspeak for 'rocks' — to be excellent — using the '-xor' suffix, as in 'j00 r0xx0r'.

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Def
adjective

Excellent, the best, top-tier, the word that named a whole record label.

#hip-hop#old-school#1980s#vintage