Slang words for good, cool, awesome

ace — great, excellent: e.g. «How was the gig? — It was ace!»

amaze-balls — amazing: e.g. «Your song was amaze-balls».

ass-kicking — excellent: e.g. «This is the most ass-kicking advice I’ve ever received».

awesome possum — variant of «awesome»: e.g. «That party was awesome possum».

bad-ass — cool, very good, excellent, cool: e.g. «That was a bad-ass concert».

bang on — accurate; perfect; right; or generally good: e.g. «Jane’s prediction of fourth-quarter earnings was bang on».

bodacious — totally cool, rad, hip: «That’s totally bodacious, dude!»

the bullet — cool: e.g. «This movie is the bullet!»

cheez whiz — cool, usually used after another term to form a superlative: e.g. «The clothes look so cheez whiz on him».

coolio — cool: e.g. «We leaving? Ok, coolio»; «You got new shoes? Koolio!»

crackin’ — cool, tight, etc. Also poppin': e.g. «This party is crackin’!»

dope — very good, excellent, cool: e.g. «Ain’t nobody dope as me, I’m dressed so fresh so clean…Outkast!»

ear candy — something pleasing to listen to, especially music-related: e.g. «With an Ipod you can listen to as much ear candy as you want, when you want».

e-ticket ride — a ride of excitement or great fun: e.g. «That car chase looks like an e-ticket ride!»

gravy — very good, excellent, cool: e.g. «Man, you gone let that girl talk to you like that?- It’s all GRAVY. I am not worried about what that girl’s saying, man.»

horrorshow — very good, excellent; «cool». Origin: «horrorshow» is the phonetic spelling of a Russian word meaning «excellent»: e.g. «I thought the movie was horrorshow.»

kosher — fine, okay: e.g. «Is everything kosher?»

like whoa — cool, awesome, great: e.g. «Honey over there was like… WHOA»; «The weed I just smoked was like Whoa!»

neato — Used by losers when something is unusually COOL, other words similar to this would be dandy and spiffy: e.g. «That was really neato».

nifty — cool: e.g. «That was nifty, man».

off the chain — very good: e.g. «Girl, that purse is off the chain!»

pickles — cool: e.g. «Dat shit is pickles».

ratchet — cool, crunk, awesome. Also spelled ratchett: e.g. «I got three phone numbers last night, ’cause that’s how ratchett I am».

redonkulus — really cool or awesome: e.g. «Dude, you got a redonkulus deal on your new car».

slammin’ — great, excellent, awesome: e.g. «Your haircut is slammin’!»; «That was some slammin’ soup».

smashing — very good: e.g. «Smashing idea, darling!»

sugar honey ice tea — something great or awesome: e.g. «That was some serious sugar honey ice tea».

tickety-boo — going well; going smoothly: e.g. «I thought I had lost my keys, but I found them and everything was tickety boo».

vicious — Awesome, cool, wicked sweet: e.g. «That movie was so vicious».

wicked — very good, cool: e.g. «Man, dude, you’re a wicked driver!»