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From the 1870s to the 1960s, dude primarily meant a male person who dressed in an extremely fashionable manner (a dandy) or a conspicuous citified person who was visiting a rural location, a "city slicker". In the 1960s, dude evolved to mean any male person, a meaning that slipped into mainstream American slang in the 1970s.
In the 1960s, the Jamaican diaspora introduced rude boy music and fashion to the United Kingdom, which influenced the mod and skinhead subcultures. [10] [11] In the late 1970s, the term rude boy and rude boy fashions came back into use after the 2 tone band the Specials (notably with a cover of "A Message to You Rudy") and their record label 2 Tone Records instigated a brief but influential ...
The folk etymology in the US (at least when I was in middle school) was that "dude" meant a cow's anus or something like that. r ʨ anaɢ ( talk ) 13:08, 11 August 2010 (UTC) [ reply ] The folk etymology in Canada when I was in school was that it meant a wart on a horse's butt.
Teddy boys playing music at the Queens Hotel, 1977 Teddy boys walking on a busy street, 1977. The Teddy Boys or Teds were a mainly British youth subculture of the early 1950s to mid-1960s who were interested in rock and roll and R&B music, wearing clothes partly inspired by the styles worn by dandies in the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had attempted to re-introduce in Britain ...
1970 Dodge "The Dude" pickup. In August 1969, the "Dude Sport Trim Package" was released. This was essentially the D100 already in production, with an added black or white body-side "C" stripe decal; a Dodge Dude decal on the box at the rear marker lamps; tail lamp bezel trim; and dog dish hub caps with trim rings.
Dan the Dude (fl. c. 1905–1915), New York City criminal and cafe owner; Devin the Dude (born 1970), American musician; Gustavo Dudamel (born 1981), Venezuelan musician nicknamed "The Dude" Dude Esterbrook (1857–1901), American Major League Baseball player; Dude Harlino (born 1980), Indonesian actor; Dude Mowrey (born 1972), American country ...
The 1970s proved a golden age for beefcake with the debut of Playgirl magazine and its completely nude pictorials of men, Cosmopolitan magazine's famous semi-nude centerfolds of actors including Burt Reynolds, and the rise of pornography directed at both female and gay male audiences in both magazines and films.
Though the television show American Bandstand helped to "sanitize" the negative image of greasers in the 1960s and 1970s, sexual promiscuity was still seen as a key component of the modern character. [21] By the mid-1970s, the greaser image had become a quintessential part of 1950s nostalgia and cultural revival. [22]