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Wicked
Wicked is the name of several things:
- 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 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and based on the novel above
- Wicked (film), a 1998 film starring Julia Stiles
- 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 (album), a 2005 album by S.U.N. Project
- 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 and Upstate New York. Example: "Wicked cool!"
- Wicked as an adverb meaning "very" originated in Puritanical New England with the idea that anything that was fun, exciting or good was "wicked".
- In the British Isles, Wicked can be used as a slang term for "excellent" or "great." Example: "That's wicked!"