Following roughly the same trajectory aswicked, sick began being used to mean "cool" sometime around the 1980s. In the 80s and 90s, sick was most often used by skaters, surfers, and teenagers. Many people think skaters are primarily responsible for sick's additional definition, which arose from skaters using the term to describe mindblowing cool tricks that others needed to be "sick in the head" to attempt.

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MOS

In online chat, kids sometimes use MOS to stand for "mom over should." This acronym is a heads-up that the sender's mother is in the room with them, and can read their chat conversation.

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