To sign cool in ASL as this video shows it, close your dominant hand into a fist and press the tip of your thumb into your cheek. Hold it there for a moment with your cheeks puffed and your lips pushed forward, then lower the hand. The hand stays still at the cheek.
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How to sign it
Handshape: a closed fist with the thumb tip pointing toward the face.
Location: the cheek, beside the mouth.
Movement: press the thumb tip into the cheek and hold briefly.
Facial expression: cheeks puffed, lips pushed forward.
Use it in a sentence
UNCLE COOL.
My uncle is cool.
This video signs cool at the cheek. Lifeprint shows a different version for cool as in neat or swell: the thumb of an open hand on the chest with the fingers wiggling, and it mentions a regional version made at the cheek. Cool as in temperature is another sign, like fanning the face.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/c/cool2.htm and c/cool.htm.
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