How about DOPE as in "Don't be such a dope."? Surely that is older. In a message dated 7/1/02 4:16:21 PM, dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU writes: << On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Laurence Horn wrote: >I always trot out "cool" as the longest-surviving lexical item that >has retained its slang categorization. Works for me. Bethany >>