Definition of edgy
edgy
adjective
- socially dangerous or daring; intellectually provocative; tending to induce unease or stress in viewers. Especially used to describe artistic and intellectual work.
"Alamo Bay" was an edgy movie on immigration.
Citation from "Doubt", Wilfred (US TV), Season 1 Episode 11 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: brave.
Last edited on Apr 21 2013. Submitted by J.S. G. from Houston, TX, USA on Jan 12 2003.
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Other terms relating to 'brave': | |
| Definitions include: cigarette. | |
| Definitions include: brave. | |
| Definitions include: metaphor: having a "backbone" endows one with courage, will. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation of disappointment. | |
| Definitions include: to face a daunting task, as a brave cowboy would. | |
| Definitions include: full of courage. | |
| Definitions include: also balls to the wall. | |
| Definitions include: metaphorical testicles that people with courage or gall have. | |
| Definitions include: testicles. | |
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| Definitions include: marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: bashful exclamation. | |
| Definitions include: a classic. | |
| Definitions include: phone. | |
| Definitions include: to overwhelm. | |
| Definitions include: verb meaning to exit, drop out, or abandon a plan suddenly. | |
| Definitions include: for a long time. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
| Definitions include: a person who gives something, only to take it away later. | |
| Definitions include: variation of "douchebag", but deemed far worse. |
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