- adj 1. Someone who is socially and intellectually innovative, and unique; often someone who exists on a fine edge between being considered odd, but doing it in such an innovative way, and with smarts that it is perceived with respect, and seen as '
cool'; someone who is edged is often also
sXe, or straightedge (clean and sober; see: ‘edge’ definition 5);
2. often someone who is on the social periphery, but perceived as '
cool' in being so; someone willing to take social risks, as in the traditional definition of edge as in being in a precarious position, or 'living on the edge,' but in social terms, confident in ones uniqueness, or ‘different-ness,’ unafraid to stand out in a crowd and be ridiculed (those ridiculing often seen as
conservative, culturally closed, intellectually unsophisticated, rednecks, bogans); 3. the inverse of someone 'edge' who is perceived as socially uncool, and anti-social (see: ‘edge’ definition
2), by although perceived by some as 'odd' or 'different,' respected by others as a social risk taker, standing social ground by redesigning what is the nature of '
cool' through defining themselves, and living 'outside of the
box';
4. someone who has a social edge, as in the traditional definition of having a margin of superiority, or advantage ('having a slight edge over the competition'), but in terms of social coolness and innovation, that despite being ridiculed by some
will stand apart in history as
cool; 5. a creative act ahead of its
time, often ridiculed at the
time of conception but revered later as unique and innovative; 6. an action taken by someone that at one
time would have been considered 'uncool,' or ridiculous, but is now considered '
cool,' smart, and often socially courageous.
- First guy: "That guy is so weird he's edged." Second guy: "Yeah. Freakin'
cool."
- "You remember when Fonzy in Happy Days went back to school and most people questioned whether it was
cool, but then Fonzy declared it
cool?" Second guy: "Yeah, that was so edged."
- "Marcel Duchamp's 1917 art piece "Fountain," a signed urinal, was ridiculed when first shown but it was so edged for its time."
