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happening noun- an unstructured event built around music, drugs and a strong sense of bonding US, 1959
- In Japan, the Gutai group started off the current wave of happenings in the early 1950s with an art show in the sky (balloons, kites, etc. from the roof of a department store). — Los Angeles Free Press, p. 6, 19 February 1965
- — J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 170, 1966: “Glossary”
- “We’re gonna stage a street happening Saturday, carol singers, motorcycle gangs, the works.” — The San Francisco Oracle, 1966
- Balls, Happenings, Theatre, Dance, and spontaneous experiments in joy. — The Digger Papers, p. 15, August 1968
- One Saturday night Danny and I stepped outside to discover that our block was the scene of a massive happening. — Ann Fettamen, Trashing, p. 29, 1970
- We simply told them we wanted to have a “happening,” which they assumed would be something like the colorful street fairs the Artists’ Liberation Front had been sponsoring, and agreed to let us use their building. — Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall, p. 77, 1998
- a party at which there is much drinking; a booze-up AUSTRALIA
- Not political parties (though they could be called that) but grog parties, dings, chevoos, happenings, piss-ups. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 181, 1971
- The basic requirements of a good “happening” were: an ample supply of “Blue” or “Green” (Vic. or Foster’s beer), the sappers, and someone fool enough to let it happen in his tent[.] — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
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