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If you google online Cool Wallpapers you will get pictures that are extremely colorful and that provoke human mind, every color has neon affect and if you have sensitive eyesight, it’ll prickle your mind. Slang use of cool for “fashionable” dates from 1933; its present use as a general term of acceptance dates from the late 1940s, most likely via bop discussion and originally in relation to a jazz style; tenor saxophonist Lester Young is reported to have popularized the phrase in jazz circles. Cool remains cool.

After more than half a century, the term, the emotive style, and the entire taste of cultural cachet remain dominant. It is the most common slang expression of praise in English, according to linguistic anthropologist Robert L. Moore. Cool, according to Moore, is a counterword, a phrase whose meaning has expanded well beyond its initial connotation. However, cool began to occur in American English as a somewhat casual term about the 1930s, meaning something like ‘intensely nice.’ This usage also set the speaker out from the rest of the crowd, emphasizing their cultural difference. Cool’s variety of conceivable meanings increased as its popularity rose. Pity the lexicographer who now must list all the attributes that have accumulated in the hidden folds of cool: self-possessed, detached, quietly scornful, morally decent, intellectually secure, artistically gratifying, physically appealing, stylish, and so on.

Moore claims that cool became popular as a multifunctional slang term in the 1950s and 1960s, displacing swell and then outperforming a slew of other informal superlatives including groovy, smooth, fantastic, phat, and sweet, to name a few. It has, however, evolved into much more than a term that can be broken down and defined. It has become a way of life for many people. Slang is inventive, visually intriguing, and full of meta-commentary, some of which is difficult to distinguish only a few years later, although less so in the case of a word like cool, which is still widely used and understood but can be a bit difficult to pin down at times.