swinging sixties

proper noun

An often nostalgic name for the 1960s.

Meanings

swinging sixties1

proper nounthe swinging sixties pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of Swinging Sixties.

Swinging Sixties2

proper nounthe Swinging Sixties pl (plural only)

alternative swinging sixties

  1. UKUSpluralplural onlyAn often nostalgic name for the 1960s.
    1 more example

    [Mary] Quant's happy perpetuation of the mythology is hardly surprising as she was part of the Chelsea Set, a group of creative entrepreneurs consisting mostly of upper-class artists, photographers and writers such as Alexander Plunckett-Green and Nell Dunn, who together with (American) mass media such as Time Magazine (scrutinized in Chapter 4), dreamt up what we now conceive of as the Swinging Sixties.

    2016, Sebastian Groes, British Fictions of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3

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