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prepsychedelic

prepsychedelic adjective: related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.

Adjective

prepsychedelic (not comparable)

  1. Related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.
    • Lehrer's songs--cynical and sarcastic, Tin Pan Alley style black humor, as if Lenny Bruce teamed up with Lerner and Loewe--were welcome assaults on the bland conformism of their day, the prepsychedelic early 1960s; we could use some of that biting comedy in the yuppified 80s, and David Whitehouse...1988 November 11, Albert Williams, “An American Dream”, in Chicago Reader
    • By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, →ISBN, page 173

Origin of prepsychedelic

From pre- + psychedelic.

Questions about prepsychedelic

What does prepsychedelic mean?
Prepsychedelic means related to or characteristic of the period preceding the Psychedelic era of the late 1960s.
What part of speech is prepsychedelic?
Prepsychedelic is an adjective.

Words near prepsychedelic in the dictionary

  1. preps
  2. preps out
  3. preps up
  4. prepster
  5. prepsters
  6. prepsychedelic
  7. prepsychological
  8. prepsychology
  9. prepsychosis
  10. prepsychotic
  11. prepub.

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