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| | The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Though the word hip--it's of unknown origin--is first found at the turn of the century, and hipster (and hepster) were around by the late 1930s, hip as a cultural phenomenon is more indicative of the late 1940s and 1950s, when an awareness of hip spread into mainstream America. |
 | | The word hippie was used throughout the 1950s in jazz slang meaning 'a person who is, or who attempts to be, hip', and was often used derisively in the sense of someone who is very square but who tries to be hip. |
 | | The 1960s sense is roughly 'a young, longhaired person of the 1960s who dressed unconventionally, held various antiestablishment attitudes and beliefs, and typically advocated communal living, free love, pacifist or radical politics, and the use of hallucinogenic drugs', and hence 'any person resembling a hippie of the '60s in dress, attitude, behavior, etc.'. |
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