Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
It's sick!
Spanish translation:
¡estupendo! / ¡loco! / ¡genial!
English term
Broad experience in SUB and DUB
Native in: Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
It's sick!
Según el contexto debería ser equivalente a "cool" pero ¿cómo sería en español neutro? ¿Saben de alguna referencia a los snowboarders?
Thanks in advance.
Alejandra.
| 4 +6 | ¡estupendo! / ¡loco! / ¡genial! |
Cristina Heraud-van Tol
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| 4 +2 | ¡Alucinante! |
Gloria Rivera
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| 5 +1 | Intenso |
Rosa Paredes
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| 5 | ¡excelente! |
Javier Moreno Pollarolo
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| 4 | ¡es una pasada! |
Alicia González-Camino (X)
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Mar 5, 2010 14:00: Cristina Heraud-van Tol Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
Peru
Accuracy and Commitment
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Peruvian, Latin American) 
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, Spanish to English, and 5 more.
¡estupendo! / ¡loco! / ¡genial!
It's sick:
1)crazy, cool, insane;
2) NEW VERSION - Now used as the newest word to replace cool. Something that you've never seen before;
3) An adjective similar to cool referring to something that is great. Ex: Your awesome new skateboard is sick!
4) Cool or entertaining to a nauseating degree. Ex: Seth Morrison's backflips off 40 footers are sick.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sick
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Word Magic:
SICK: (slang) estupendo, divertido, fantástico, pura vida, chipocludo, guay, chingón, chiro; Synonyms: amazing, awesome, extremely good, great, terrific, wonderful; fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept.
That's sick.
Mary's dress is really sick.
| agree |
Jairo Payan
: Me gusta genial!
5 mins
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gracias
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| agree |
Marcelo González
: genial
1 hr
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| agree |
Rita Tepper
: genial, perfecto.
2 hrs
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| agree |
Marianna Tucci
8 hrs
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| agree |
De Novi
: ¡loco!
11 hrs
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| agree |
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
: barbaro!
18 hrs
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United States
From Shakespeare to Cervantes.
Native in: Spanish 
, English , Russian
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English to Russian
¡excelente!
No significa ¡enfermo!, sino que viene de una variación del verbo chill (relajarse, estar bien)
Chill --> Chillin' like Illin' --> to be ill --> to be sick --> sick!
United States
Trust me. I am a doctor!
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish
¡Alucinante!
Saludos,
Gloria
* Snowboard Freestyle : Simplemente alucinante. Travis Parker, Todd Richards, Justin Benne & company haciendo de las suyas. Tres maestros de esta modalidad de snowboarding bien acompañados.....(Videos de snowboard) http://www.yumping.com/videos/snowboard
* Un día alucinante, sol, nieve y un park perfectamente shapeado, esto resume lo que ha sido el primer día de este TF 08 http://www.radikalboard.com/snowboard/total-fight/
¡es una pasada!
¡Pero no sé si funcionaría para Argentina!
Un saludo.
Canada
Criminal, Civil and Immigration Law
Native in: English , Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Chilean, Standard-Spain, Mexican)
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 3 more.
Discussion
También necesitamos el contexto original. Tú sabes qué pone en el texto, pero también nosotros tenemos que saberlo para no decidir a ciegas.