It’s like cool has unofficially been accepted by multiple generations to be the template by which all other trendy words are cut from.

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    5 days ago

    Because cool isn’t slang, you have arrived in your jalopy, wheels or ride but you always drove your car.

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      Cool is a temperature, the words that aren’t slang but also mean hip, funky, dope, sick, sweet, lit, fire, based, peak, are good, trendy and fashionable

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      Ironically, you’re wrong - but also the fact that you don’t realize that it is slang, is one of the things that transitions a word from being slang.