what is { radioactive } ?
You'll never get her to go out with you: that chick's radioactive. i know the meaning of radioactive.
i need to know how it is used as a slang term
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To describe a girl as very attractive you could say "she's hot". But you can always go one better!
So what if she's hotter than "hot"? She's RADIOACTIVE. :D
I've also heard of radioactive metals described casually as "that thing's hot!" Not in the attractive sense, though.
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Radioactive, literally, is when a chemical element decays via alpha particles, etc. But here radioactive is used figuratively:
chick = young woman
hot = attractive
nuclear = nuclear reaction = very hot = extremely attractive
radioactive = here, extremely attractive, nuclear
So the speaker is saying: she's out of your league.
At least that is the way I would interpret it - others might disagree with me... :-)
Radioactive is not a common term for describing people at all, at least where I live. It could also mean crazy or damaging, since handling radioactive uranium / plutonium / etc. could sicken or kill you. But here I would interpret it as just meaning very, very attractive.
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يعنى مشع يا صفاء.
زى اليورانيوم.
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هذا السؤال لازم الي
ومعناه النشاط الاشعاعي
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Source of heat. Toxic, dangerous, the word came from Hiroshima and the atomic bomb during World War Two.
Now it means the girl is "hot", or sexy, looking for a man and eager to find an equally hot new boyfriend.
In the future, please use this format:
"radioactive" (that is, the word is in:
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Simple is excellent; the more simple, the more powerful.
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