zero-cool

adjective

Very cool (trendy, fashionable, pleasing, etc.)

Meanings

adjectivezero-cool (comparative more zero-cool, superlative most zero-cool)

comparative more zero-cool · superlative most zero-cool

  1. datedinformalVery cool (trendy, fashionable, pleasing, etc.)

    SINGER DIONNE WARWICK believes her younger sister, Dee Dee, has the makings of a zero-cool singer.

    1965, Corpsman (volume 1, issue 2, page 9)
    2 more examples

    Investigative journalist Jim Hougan accurately described Bellino as a "zero-cool, behind-the-scenes figure in the Kennedy organization."

    1998, Gus Russo, Live by the Sword, page 242

    She blazed a trail for new wave and became a zero-cool gay rights activist in an industry still jittery about open declarations of sexuality.

    2023, Stuart Cosgrove, The Complete Soul Trilogy: eBook Bundle
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