tacticool
adjEtymology Blend of tactical + cool.
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Slang Having the impressive appearance, but not the functionality, of tactical military equipment, or being functional but also risibly tryhard about badass appearance.
- Though I dig the tacticool chic, Dixon, I'm an immortal, remember? Unless that gauze can fix a beheading.2010, Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark, page 81:
- Tacticool? In the last few decades, the tactical folder has dominated the knife market. The demand for these folders has been so great that the marketplace has been flooded with cheap alternatives to this hardier knife, […]2017, Mike Yarbrough, The Guy's Guide to Pocket Knives:
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