Slang Files · 🤙 Approval & awesome
G33Z3R Slang Files · 1989–1993
Excellent (with air guitar)
🗳️ Did you say it?
Be one of the first to weigh in. No account needed.
An ordinary word made a catchphrase by two guys from San Dimas and an air-guitar riff. Bill and Ted said it about everything and the country said it about everything for two years.
It came with a gesture, which is what made it slang instead of vocabulary. The gesture still works.
Sources: Wiktionary — Excellent (with air guitar) · Wikipedia — Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Excellent (with air guitar).
Approval & awesome · 1984–1992
Means: Impressive, bold, or, about a person, attractive
Approval & awesome · 1975–1990
Means: Excellent, tough, impressive
Approval & awesome · 1987–1993
Means: An exclamation of joy, usually before a jump
Approval & awesome · 1980–1992
Means: Excellent; short for radical
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