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title: "blazing · GenZ Decoded"
description: "blazing: Excellent or first-rate. Used as strong approval, and especially common as praise for food. Example: \"That barbecue was absolutely blazing.\""
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# blazing

Gen X[#cool](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/approval/)

**Meaning.** Excellent or first-rate. Used as strong approval, and especially common as praise for food.

See it in a sentence

That barbecue was absolutely blazing.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z

    [bomb](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/bomb/),[buttah](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/buttah/)

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    [awesome](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/awesome/)

- Gen X · this one

    blazing,[all that and a bag of chips](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips/)

- Boomer

    [far out](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/far-out/),[groovy](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/groovy/)

- Plain English

    excellent or first-rate

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- [How every generation says that's excellent](https://genzdecoded.com/how-to-say/thats-excellent/)

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## Related slang

- [awesome](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/awesome/): Excellent or outstanding.
- [bet](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/bet/): An expression of agreement, approval, or acceptance of a challenge.
- [blueprint](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/blueprint/): Someone who did something so well they set the standard others follow.
- [bomb](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/bomb/): Excellent or outstanding; something that is "the bomb" is great.

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