Slight Antedatings of "Yippie"

[Fred Shapiro]

yippie (OED 1968 Apr.)

1968 _Berkeley Barb_ 2-8 Feb. in Immanuel Wallerstein & Paul Starr _The
University Crisis Reader_ (1971) II. 350  The thing to do is to get a
traveling yippee guerrilla theater band roaming through college campuses
burning books, burning degrees and exams, [etc.]

1968 _Wash. Post_ 20 Mar. A3 (ProQuest)  The Yippies gave away free coffee
and Danish. ... Dr. Timothy Leary ... would be in Chicago for the Yippie
"festival of life."

Fred Shapiro


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