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ur-cool

ur-cool adjective: extremely cool.

Adjective

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

  1. (slang) Extremely cool.
    • Helen, who is sitting just in front of her, stops playing, and turns to her. "Petra, I think we should cool it here."
      "But that is what I do," says Petra. "This is supposed to be cool. Ur-cool."1999, Vikram Seth, An Equal Music, Penguin Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 221
    • The pavements were turned into tree-lined, fountained boulevards; which boulevards are enlivened by jazz bands and lasers, lined by new cafes and bars, ur-cool by any standards; […]2003, Ramesh Kumar, Malaysia: Riches from the Golden Land, Springer, published 2003, →ISBN, page 81

Forms of ur-cool

comparativemore ur-cool
superlativemost ur-cool

Origin of ur-cool

From ur- + cool.

Questions about ur-cool

What does ur-cool mean?
Ur-cool means extremely cool.
What part of speech is ur-cool?
Ur-cool is an adjective.

Words near ur-cool in the dictionary

  1. ur-
  2. ur-ancestor
  3. ur-ancestors
  4. ur-continent
  5. ur-continents
  6. ur-cool
  7. ur-culture
  8. ur-cultures
  9. ur-form
  10. ur-forms
  11. Ur-Germanic

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