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What does fly mean in street slang?

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What fly means in street slang is stylish, attractive, cool, fashionable, impressive, excellent, confident, originating in African American Vernacular English, hip hop culture, and street culture of 1970s to 1990s, and still used. In street slang, if someone says that car is fly, or you look fly today, they mean it looks stylish, cool, attractive, fashionable. Fly can describe clothing, shoes, car, hairstyle, or person who is attractive and confident. For person, fly guy means stylish, attractive man who is well-dressed and confident, fly girl means stylish, attractive woman. Fly also can mean to be knowledgeable, aware, street smart, as in someone who is fly knows what's happening. In older street slang, fly could mean cunning, clever, or to be good at something. The term came from idea of flying high, elevated, impressive, and was popularized in hip hop lyrics, movies, and TV shows like In Living Color Fly Girls. So in street slang, fly means cool, stylish, attractive, fashionable, confident, impressive, and is compliment, similar to fresh, dope, lit, though somewhat retro now replaced by drip, fire, but still understood. Example, that outfit is fly means stylish and looks good, she is fly means attractive and fashionable.
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