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too cool for school

too cool for school adjective: very cool (trendy, fashionable, etc.).

Adjective

too cool for school (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Very cool (trendy, fashionable, etc.).
    • Firstable (the latest word for first of all, for those not too cool for school), the decline in teen users can be largely attributed to rival messaging apps and the public distrust of Facebook.2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times
    • Too cool for school? Why some men keep wearing jeans – even in a heatwave [title]2026 June 26, Chloe Mac Donnell, “Too cool for school? Why some men keep wearing jeans – even in a heatwave”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about too cool for school

What does too cool for school mean?
Too cool for school means very cool (trendy, fashionable, etc.).
What part of speech is too cool for school?
Too cool for school is an adjective.

Words near too cool for school in the dictionary

  1. too clever by half
  2. too close for comfort
  3. too close to call
  4. too close to the sun
  5. Too Cool
  6. too cool for school
  7. too far gone
  8. too good for this world
  9. too good to be true
  10. too good to last
  11. too hard basket

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