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Old-fashioned "Cool!"
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groovy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. 1 Of, pertaining to, or having grooves. 2 (context dated English) Set in one's ways. Etymology 2 a. (context dated slang English) cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. (popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853 in literal sense of "pertaining to a groove," from groove (n.) + -y (2). Slang sense of "first-rate, excellent" is 1937, American English, from jazz slang phrase in the groove (1932) "performing well (without grandstanding)." As teen slang for "wonderful," ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Groovy (or, less commonly, "groovie" or "groovey") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s. It is roughly synonymous with words such as " cool ", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the lanes have hit the modern mood in a musical sense with a groovy little gig called Cosmic Bowl. ▪ Fortunately, there's usually groovy soul music playing and eye-catching art adorning the walls. ▪ Hey man, I've got ...
Usage examples of groovy.
His steak and caviar diet has been replaced by Gravy Trainand he looks even groovier and healthier.
His steak and caviar diet has been replaced by Gravy Train-and he looks even groovier and healthier.
Uncle Jack owned Jax--the grooviest, sexiest, most altogether bonaroo boutique on Rodeo Drive.
Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor and there in one of the giant keyholes inscribed for basketball see, groping her vertical backstroke a little awkward opposite any boy heels might make her an inch taller than, a Sharon, Linda or Michele, seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding .