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Word: bitchin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...aware of the disparity between the Beach Boy image and what they actually are, but they don't mind. Dennis, the drummer, changed his concert uniform as soon as he entered the suite; and, just as easily, he has shed the 26th Street Beach obscenities and Californiaisms like "bitchin'" from his speech. During our three-hour talk, he looked like an expensively-tailored cowboy. The beige suede boots were new, as were the red gingham shirt, the black suede vest, and the levi-cut pants of loden wool flannel. He pulled self-consciously at his boots and told us that...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Surf's Out for the Beach Boys | 11/30/1965 | See Source »

...college students, we feel that your favorable Johnson bag deserves a zero-cool ace in better than best informative writing. Fortunately, you recognize that the Administration has tubed the Viet Nam skirmish because of an inability to control R.F.ing Buddhists and Viet Cong. Bitchin insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Fink Is a Squid. No greater praise can be bestowed on a person, place or thing in California than to be bitchin (a shortened, reverse-English form of sons o' bitchin'). Degrees of superiority at Colorado College begin with mean, work up toward brutal and savage. The ancient real cool is still admired at tradition-hobbled Harvard, but the University of Florida has gone on to zero cool, and Colorado College's cool denotes square. How bad is that? reflects admiration; to be unreal is to be impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Slang Bag | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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