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groovy
adjective- very good, pleasing US, 1937
The word enjoyed two periods of great popularity, first in the early 1940s and then in the mid-to-late 1960s, where it caught on both in the mainstream and in hip circles. Since then, it has become a signature word for mocking the attitudes and fashions of the 1960s. - Just kickin’ down the cobble stones / Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy. — Simon and Garfunkel, The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy), 1967
- “You sound groovy,” I said[.] — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 161, 1945
- He’d light up and get real high, and when he was groovy as a ten-cent movie he’d begin to play the blues on a beat-up guitar. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, pp. 51–52, 1946
- “You like the groovy music on the juke?” Barrelhouse said. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 425, 1947
- — Arnold Shaw, Lingo of Tin-Pan Alley, p. 12, 1950
- “I pitched a no-hit game last summer,” said Georgie. “Hey, groovy,” said Sally. — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 83, 1951
- Cats say things are really groovy down on the Street. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 94, 1961
- It’s not a big motorcycle / Just a groovy little motorbike — The Beach Boys, Little Honda, 1964
- Shorty would take me to groovy, frantic scenes in different chicks’ and cats’ pads, where with the lights and juke down mellow, everybody blew gage and juiced back and jumped. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 56, 1964
- So split for Athens, Mykonos, someplace groovy. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 111, 1966
- Wild thing / you make everything / groovy — The Troggs, Wild Thing, 1966
- Wouldn’t you agree / baby you and me / We’ve got a groovy kind of love. — Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, A Groovy Kind of Love, 1966
- [A]nd then it’s quickly followed by some broad telling you how groovy some gasoline is and how you can get laid practically as much as you want if you use it. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 67, 1968
- It’s really very groovy to take her to a movie / Where we make it in the balcony. — The Fugs, Slum Goddess, 1968
- Everything groovy. Everything with style ... must be first class. — The Digger Papers, p. 15, August 1968
- You know what we ought to do, man? The first thing – go and get us a groovy dinner. — Peter Fonda, Easy Rider, p. 55, 1969
- It’s only midnight. If her parties are anything like they used to be, things are getting groovy about now. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 27, 1969
- So many groovy heads are here that we could certainly figure out a way to survive. — East Village Other, 20 August 1969
- It’s groovy to be carnal. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 74, 1970
- If she could have believed that he was over there at the picnic table grooving on the food freak simply because he was stoned on acid and everything he saw and heard seemed groovy, it would have been one thing. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 87, 1971
- Jim was groovy with me but he had an odd way of taking care of his business. — A. S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 98, 1973
- That’s why right now is a very groovy time, man. — Austin Powers, 1997
- sexually attractive UK
A nuance of the sense as “pleasing”. - — The Observer, 3 December 1967
- profoundly out of style US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Spring 1983
- used to describe the effects of amphetamine UK
Drug-users’ (no-one else could be so subjective) slang. - — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
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