groovy
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groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)
- Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
- The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.
- (dated) Set in one's ways.
- 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon:
- She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.
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Etymology 2 edit
From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.
Adjective edit
groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)
- (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s–1970s]
- 1969, Groovy Guide to the Guys![2]:
- Basically Bobby’s just a hard-working, highly creative, friendly, groovy guy who’s got a lot of things he wants to do and is in a hurry to try them all.
- 2012, Pat Monahan (Train), Drive By (song lyrics):
- When you move me, everything is groovy.
- 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club[3]:
- Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
- 2015 February 12, Tina Alexander, Daniel Baxter, “How X-Men: Days of Future Past Should Have Ended”, in How It Should Have Ended[4], season 7, episode 3, spoken by Superman (Daniel Baxter), How It Should Have Ended, via YouTube:
- Well, I love it! Move really fast, reverse time, save everyone? That sounds groovy! I’m gonna have to try that some day!
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cool, neat, interesting
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Noun edit
groovy (plural groovies)
- (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.
- 2002, Antonio Mendoza, “The Exterminating Angel”, in Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Youth Crime Phenomenon, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 77:
- He also stole a $100-dollar bill from his father's wallet and gave it to a couple of the other Goth kids. […] Nevertheless, all this didn't give him the social status he coveted from his gloomy groovies.
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- OED 2nd edition 1989