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Innovative, cool, interesting, or experimental. Taken from the French avant-garde artistic movement that specialized in experimental and innovative works of art.
"Jamal's got this new avant watch."
avant by cunninglinguist666 March 31, 2024

Avant Teen 

A person who listens to ridiculously obscure and/or inaccessible music, watches experimental and/or foreign films, and reads postmodern and/or avant-garde books.
Avant Teen: Have you listened to Quartet, by Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita, and Taku Unami?
Normal Person: What?
Avant Teen by Radionuclide January 16, 2014

avant-garde 

Avant-garde (pronounced avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard".1 The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. However, this is not true in the case of music as many pieces are still being released which are generally considered avant-garde in popular culture.2 Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde and still continue to do so, tracing a history from Dada to the Situationists to postmodern artists such as the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers in the 1980's to many art collectives in the "post-postmodernist"3 times of today.4
your work is so avant-garde, it speaks and shows me so many aspects at once,it is beyond it's time.
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Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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