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rad
"x-ray dose unit," 1918, shortened form of
radiation
(q.v.). As shortened form of
radical
(n.), it is attested in political slang from 1820. Teen slang sense of "extraordinary, wonderful" is from late 1970s (see
radical
(adj.)).
