awesome

awesome
adj
wonderful, excellent, very impressive. A popular teenage word, first used in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s as part of the vocabulary of Valley Girls, preppies and hip hop music enthusiasts, among others. This use of the adjective was imported into Britain in the 1980s, espe-cially by teenage skateboarders and rap music enthusiasts.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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