Wicked
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Wicked (rad)As in radical. Like really cool
- Wicked (novel), a novel by Gregory Maguire based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; full title: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- Wicked (musical), a Broadway and West End musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and based on the novel above
- Wicked Pictures, a producer of porn movies
- Wicked problems, those which have incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements; and solutions to them are often difficult to recognize as such because of complex interdependencies
- Wicked (hacker), Wicked is the call sign of one of the internet's infamous Old School hackers. This hacker often is considered a modern day "Robin Hood".
- Wicked - commonly known as WKD on the free Ultima Online Shard UOGamers:Hybrid. People consider them "Gankers" but they keep all the murderers in line, Purging the lands of filth.
- Wicked, pronounced with one syllable, is an adjective meaning "possessing a wick."
- Wicked can be used as a slang term meaning "very" or "extremely". This use is most common in New England, especially Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, also in Upstate New York. Example: "That was wicked cool"
- In the British Isles, Wicked can be used as a slang term for "excellent" or "great." Example: "That's wicked!"
- Wicked is also the name of one of Ice Cube's songs.
- Wicked, Etymology--Middle English, an alteration of wicke, ultimately from the Old English words wicca or sorcerer. In the age that the Bible was written, the British candle makers used to twist their wicks before they dipped them into the candle wax so the wax would adhere to the wick. Thus the term ‘wicked’ came to mean ‘twisted’ and in the King James Bible, being ‘wicked’ meant twisting what was righteous.
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