GROOVY - MEANING: GOOD, COOL, AGREEABLE
ORIGIN: THE TERM TAKES YOU BACK TO THE HIPPIE SIXTIES, BUT SHOULD ACTUALLY TAKE YOU EVEN FURTHER BACK.
TO THE 1930s.
IN FRANCE,
AT THE TIME, AMERICAN MUSICIANS WANTED TO "GROOVE", SLANG FOR "MAKE A RECORD".
THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT THAT COULD BE PAID A MUSICIAN OR GROUP WAS TO TELL THEM THEY WERE "GROOVY" - GOOD ENOUGH TO BE RECORDED.
THE TERM SPREAD TO AMERICA IN THE 1950s.
BY THE END OF THE SIXTIES, ALL KINDS OF THINGS - NOT JUST MUSIC- WERE "GROOVY".
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