Wicked Cool

It's popular slang these days to use negative terms to connote positives. What is "wicked" is actually "cool." But this is not a new development. The earliest recorded use of ‘wicked’ to mean ‘cool, good’ is from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. The source for this is the Oxford English Dictionary, but of course there may be an earlier instance of the word which is yet to be discovered. Fitzgerald’s first novel also provides us with the first known uses of the words ‘T-shirt’ and ‘daiquiri.’ More about this can be found in this blog post on The Great Gatsby.