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Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s to mid 1970s teenager and youth culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička). [15] Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects ...
[70] Tyttebærpoliti Norwegian, literally "Lingonberry Police" (from the Securitas logo), referring to any privately hired security guard, excluding bouncers and bodyguards. Occasional plan B for Police Academy rejects. Txakurra Basque word meaning dog. Slang for a police officer, especially a member of Spanish Nacional Police.
A wide range of personal appearance options and clothing styles have become acceptable, all of which were uncommon before the hippie era. [69] [70] Co-operative business enterprises and creative community living arrangements are widely accepted. Interest in natural food, herbal remedies and vitamins is widespread, and the little hippie "health ...
Police had their hands full during Miami’s hippie heyday, dealing with complaints about befogged young people camping out uninvited in vacant lots, stealing fruit from yards, littering parks ...
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Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.
This counterculture author’s path to esteemed military historian is “like a headscratcher,” he says. His book about Truman and the atomic bomb comes out this week.
According to lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip and the synonym hep, whose origins are disputed. [1] The words hip and hep first surfaced in slang around the beginning of the 20th century and spread quickly, making their first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1904. At the time ...