rad
adjective
- slangily good
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɹæd/
adj
- Clipping of radical (“excellent”).
“In the Guinness Book of World-fucking-Records, man… under "Raddest Fucking Dude Alive"!”
“What is up, girly-friend? Holy shit, cuz. This is such a rad surprise.”
name
- Initialism of Radiation Assessment Detector, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
- Acronym of River Arts District, a neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, United States.
“The recovery is still a work in progress, given the deadly storm’s massive impact on people across Western North Carolina and its devastation of two popular Asheville neighborhoods — the RAD (“rad”), as locals call it, and nearby Biltmore Village.”
noun
- Initialism of role activity diagram.
- Initialism of rapid application development.
- Initialism of reactive attachment disorder.