SLANG
High approvalfar out
Counterculture · 1960–1979 · Baby Boomers
Excellent or impressive, often with a sense of pleasant surprise.
“You built this yourself? Far out.”
- Region
- United States
- Subculture
- Counterculture
- Canonical key
- far-out
Learn more
- Oxford English Dictionary, slang entries — Oxford University Press
Connected expressions
Predecessor · 1920–1935
the bee's knees"The bee's knees" is the Jazz Age ancestor of superlative approval slang.
Predecessor · 2010–2026
fire"Far out" carried the same high-approval function a generation earlier.