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title: "fire · GenZ Decoded"
description: "fire: Excellent, exciting, or impressive. Example: \"That new album is fire.\" Meaning, Gen Z usage, and related slang."
url: "https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/fire/"
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# fire

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

**Meaning.** Excellent, exciting, or impressive.

See it in a sentence

That new album is fire.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z · this one

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

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

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

- Gen X

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

- Boomer

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

- Plain English

    excellent, exciting, or impressive

## Read more on this idea

- [How every generation says that's excellent](https://genzdecoded.com/how-to-say/thats-excellent/)
- [On Point Meaning: The Praise, and the Two Lookalikes](https://genzdecoded.com/explained/on-point/)

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## Related slang

- [eat](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/eat/): To perform excellently; when you 'ate,' you did great.
- [fetch](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/fetch/): Cool or trendy; popularized by Mean Girls and often used ironically.
- [fly](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/fly/): Very cool or stylish.
- [fresh](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/fresh/): Cool, stylish, or impressive, especially in appearance.

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