Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Esquire made this disclosure in an umpteen-page section about what we hip college youths are up to, and even provided photographic proof...
...Hip! Two, Three, Four...
...Please accept my gentle, loving indication to you that your quasi-learned etymology of the word "hippie" completely misses the mark. When the words "hip" and "hipster" were real cool, there was also the word "hippie"; it referred to an unhip person trying to be hip but not really making it. I suggest that this can tell us something about today's hippies...
...June issue of the magazine Seat-lie offers a definition of the term hippie that conflicts with yours: "When opium smokers were getting their kicks, they used to lie down and smoke their pipes, throwing their weight on one hip. Thus, someone smoking opium was termed 'on the hip.' Years later American jazz musicians took up the word, applying it indiscriminately to anyone on drugs. In the present-day vernacular, it suggests looking beyond the camouflage of everyday reality, usually with the help of LSD and pot, but not always...
With a flick of one suety hip, the most sensational new basquetbolista in the hemisphere feinted his opponent out of his socks and drove in for the layup. Yes, fans, Fidel Castro, 39, has decided to add basketball to a list of athletic achievements that already includes a lifetime baseball batting average of 1.000. El Artillero (The Gunner, as he is called by any Havana paper with its wits about it) drilled in 40 points in his first try at basquetbol, graciously let it be known afterward that 1) no overall score was kept, and 2) his team...