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In 2002, photojournalist John Bassett McCleary published a 650-page, 6, 000-entry unabridged slang dictionary devoted to the language of the hippies titled The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s.

The book was revised and expanded to 700 pages in 2004 .< ref >.

.</ ref > McCleary believes that the hippie counterculture added a significant number of words to the English language by borrowing from the lexicon of the Beat Generation, through the hippies ' shortening of beatnik words and then popularizing their usage.