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20% cooler

20% cooler phrase: used playfully or sarcastically to mock unhelpful creative feedback, critiquing without giving any specifics.

Phrase

20% cooler

  1. Used playfully or sarcastically to mock unhelpful creative feedback, critiquing without giving any specifics.
  2. Used to describe something that needs to be cooler, suggesting that it lacks the sufficient coolness.

Forms of 20% cooler

alternative formit needs to be 20% cooler
alternative formit needs to be about 20% cooler

Origin of 20% cooler

From the 2011 episode Suited for Success, the fourteenth episode of the first season of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, in which Rainbow Dash says “It needs to be about 20% cooler,” vaguely critiquing one of Rarity's dress designs.

Questions about 20% cooler

What does 20% cooler mean?
20% cooler means used playfully or sarcastically to mock unhelpful creative feedback, critiquing without giving any specifics.
What part of speech is 20% cooler?
20% cooler is a phrase.

Words near 20% cooler in the dictionary

  1. 2/3rds
  2. 2/4
  3. 20 bucks is 20 bucks
  4. 20 dollars is 20 dollars
  5. 20 whole dollars
  6. 20% cooler
  7. 20's
  8. 20-80 rule
  9. 20-gon
  10. 20-gons
  11. 20-something

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