"kool" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-kool.ogg [Australia] Forms: kooler [comparative], koolest [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} kool (comparative kooler, superlative koolest)
  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of cool Tags: alt-of, alternative, slang Alternative form of: cool
    Sense id: en-kool-en-adj-Poc8zJ~L
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: kools [present, singular, third-person], kooling [participle, present], kooled [participle, past], kooled [past]
Etymology: Back slang for look. Etymology templates: {{m|en|look}} look Head templates: {{en-verb}} kool (third-person singular simple present kools, present participle kooling, simple past and past participle kooled)
  1. (obsolete, costermongers) To look; to pay attention to with one’s eyes. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: look, cool
    Sense id: en-kool-en-verb-6IKxRZig Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Yucatec Maya entries with incorrect language header, Yucatec Maya links with redundant alt parameters Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of Yucatec Maya entries with incorrect language header: 2 1 0 19 22 21 0 0 3 21 8 1 1 Disambiguation of Yucatec Maya links with redundant alt parameters: 2 0 0 17 23 23 0 0 3 21 7 1 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for kool meaning in English (3.9kB)

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