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I was just thinking about all the hip coinage of the 60's...like "Let's roll!" that was mentioned. Also, "Later!", for instance, trimmed down from "I'll see you later on" to "later on" then simply "Later!" We could also include the more cliché catch-words and phrases like groovy, far out, out of sight, bummer, not my bag, rip-off, sock it to me...but that's enough from me for now. Remember... the 60's...not the '50's or '70's. How many can we get from all sides of the pond? Or does anybody care? 
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I think we did this a while back, but I can't remember the thread name.
Anyway, I have a corny one a male guidance counselor used to use:
Know what I mean, jellybean?
It's probably not all that hip. I'm not hip and never have been, but I liked that phrase back in the 60s, just to show how out of it I was. I mean: way far out, and not "far out!" at all. There's a paradox for ya'!
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One I can't stop using, even after all these decades, is cool. 
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One word I've observed mentioned is 'gnarly', which is generally synonymous with 'cool' or 'rad'. Another one from the 50's or 60's, I believe, is 'gone'. I inadvertantly discovered an ad for a 50's or 60's recipe, and found the word there. It also means 'far out' or 'rad'.
e.g.: Gnarly, dude!
e.g.2: That pie is totally gone!
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That pie is totally gone!Like, real gone!  Welcome, Varbarian!
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Timothy Leary:"Tune in, Turn on and Drop out."
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from the late 60s SF scene: contact high (Fillmore West)
I brought back from a trip to SF (not a SF trip) a brass peace symbol on a leather thong, which I would wear to parties: token hippie : )
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One I can't stop using, even after all these decades, is cool. But that is cool, Auntie - or at least it is over this side of the Pond, where 60s phrases and outfits (saw my 16-y-o cousin in a distinctly Mary Quant hat/outfit the other day) are coming right back in. My 5-y-o son and 3-y-o daughter are already describing things as cool, so I expect the term will become such a natural part of their vocabulary they'll have to find another one when they hit their teens. Another Carnaby Street special is Fab. Two years ago I would have felt a complete pillock saying something was "Fab". Now it's close to my favourite expression of approval, and I haven't yet been laughed at for using it (at least not to my face  ). This might just be a regional thing - I live fairly close to (liberal) Brighton right in the Saath of England, so opinions of those in the frozen North would be interesting here. Hi Rhub and dode!
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grok
From Robert A. Heinlein's classic SF novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, where the main character, Michael Valentine Smith, an alien, teaches those on Earth to grok as a way of absorbing and understanding something, or someone.
from Bartleby's and The American Heritage Dictionary:
grok
PRONUNCIATION: grk
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: grok·ked, grok·king, groks
Slang To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.
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Also: uptight, stoned, bad trip, keep on truckin', bad vibes, good vibes, cool it, spaced out
burn-out (as in, he's a real burn-out): this expression is an interesting study of the social mores among the younger folks of the time...it meant someone who stayed high all the time, usually using a vast array of drugs. It's semantic value is now difficult to explain if you weren't there, because most folks partied to a degree, even if just experimenting with pot, but nobody wanted to be a burn-out except for the burn-outs. Yet, there was no derision in the term, just a mild distancing...it wasn't really cool to be a burn-out, but burn-outs maintained their own cool and mystique in a strange sort of way and intermingled and partied with everybody else. But you would hear folks say things like, "Man, I ain't no burn-out!" Or, "I ain't doing that [drug], I ain't no burn-out." Or, "What are ya, some kind of burn-out!" And these were always accompanied with a laugh and/or a smile, and a definite twinkle in the eye.
Then "burned-out" also came to mean overextending your energy somewhere in the 70's.
And, then, of course, "burned-out" or "all burned-out" [on drugs] came to take on a more ominous tone as more peoples' lives began to shipwreck on substance abuse in the 70's.
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