zero-cool

English

Adjective

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

1. (dated, informal) Very cool (trendy, fashionable, pleasing, etc.)
   • 1965, Corpsman (volume 1, issue 2, page 9)

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

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

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

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

     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.

See also

• zero chill

References

• Tony Thorne (2014) “zero-cool”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury