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Vinony

rad

adjective

  1. slangily good
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹæd/

adj

  1. 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

  1. Initialism of Radiation Assessment Detector, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
  2. 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

  1. Initialism of role activity diagram.
  2. Initialism of rapid application development.
  3. Initialism of reactive attachment disorder.