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Title: Hippy Slang of the 60's - Can You Dig It?
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URL Source: http://www.socyberty.com/Subculture ... the-60s---Can-You-Dig-It.57341
Published: Nov 11, 2007
Author: Darlene McFarlene
Post Date: 2007-11-11 10:15:46 by Darlene
Keywords: Culture freedom, hippies, love , peace, Protest, rebellion, slang
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Comments: 25

The 60’s. It was a time of political controversy, rebellion, protest marches, bras burning, bare feet, and flower power. From the dust of the 60’s turmoil rose a new cultural lifestyle with a new breed of people: We called them Hippies.

They were children of peace who criticized middle class values, rebelled against established institutions and were dead against the Vietnam War. They were a new and liberated class of people who gave preference to freedom, love, and peace. They were set apart from others by the way they looked, how they thought, and how they spoke....

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#3. To: Darlene (#0)

Women were always called "chicks".

By about 1969 "hippy" was an insult reserved for posers. If you were Ok, then you were a "head".

I never heard anyone say "far out" or "groovey" except for the "hippies" described above.

A piece of anything was a "hit", e.g., if someone was eathing cake and you wanted some you would say "gimme a hit off that cake".

Wine and other alcoholic drinks were called "panther piss". But I don't know if this was universal or not.

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