With its cultural shifts and momentous events, the 1960s were rich in words reflecting both the seriousness of the time (“think-in”) and its frivolity (“fab”).  In our continuing series of words from bygone eras, here are terms from a decade often characterized as the “swinging sixties”.

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Source: Oxford English Dictionary timelines (oed.com), including recorded citations



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