"vibe" - Word of the Day from the OED

[Mark Kohut]

I remember when "bad vibes' was part of my regular vocabulary......


--- On Sun, 8/10/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: "vibe" - Word of the Day from the OED
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 10, 2008, 8:41 PM
> OED Online Word of the Day
> 
> vibe, v.
> 
> DRAFT ENTRY June 2006
> slang (orig. U.S.).
> 
> Brit. /vb/, U.S. /vab/  Present tense and present
> participle vibeing,
> vibing. [< VIBE n. (see sense 2 at that entry).]
> 
>     1. intr. Of a place: to be lively, busy, or exciting.
> 
> 1968 Los Angeles Times 24 Mar. (West Mag. section) 27/1
> It's Saturday
> 10:30 showtime and the Troubadour is vibing with that
> excited
> crowdedness so dear to the hearts of nightclub owners. 1995
> Sunday
> Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 12 Mar. The night Mick Richards
> opened his
> show the rest of the town was quiet, but the Brunswick
> Strip..was
> vibing nicely. 2004 Time Out (Nexis) 16 June 132 Danny
> Delta and Cyrus
> welcome DJ Bias to help keep the loft room vibing with
> their breaks,
> reggae, hip hop and funk guns.
> 
>     2. trans. To transmit or express (a feeling, attitude,
> etc.) to
> others in the form of intuitive signals or 'vibes'.
> Also: to perceive
> on the basis of such signals.
> 
> 1971 Frendz 21 May 16/1 All the heads in town came out and
> vibed their
> existence to the Sunday suburbia. 1983 'J. GASH'
> Sleepers of Erin iv.
> 42 Kurak smouldered his way to the Rolls, vibing pure hate
> in my
> direction. 1996 VietNow (Electronic ed.) 31 Dec. 24 If
> you're vibing
> any arrogance or attitude from her so far, you would be
> completely
> wrong. 2003 B. WANGER Still Holding i. 109 A cashier at
> Erewhon vibed
> her pregnancy and told her about yoga with Gurmukh at
> Golden Bridge.
> 
>     3. trans.
> 
>     a. To excite, motivate; to send a positive feeling or
> 'vibe' to.
> Usu. with up.
> 
> 1977 Sounds 28 May 30/1 They always look like they're
> having a party
> going on in the corner of the stage, looking at each other,
> whispering
> between numbers and laughing, generally vibing each other
> up. 1986
> Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 15 Mar., You make sure the
> jock's [sic]
> are up with what's happening.., show them videos and
> get them vibed up
> and interested. 1999 D. CENTURY Street Kingdom iii. 98
> It'll be good.
> You'll vibe him. You and him got so much in common.
> 
>     b. To intimidate, cause to feel uneasy; to send a
> negative feeling
> or 'vibe' to. Usu. with out.
> 
> [1971 E. E. LANDY Underground Dict. 193 Vibe, send out
> vibrations
> (vibes)eg. He bad vibed me.] 1979 Off our Backs Oct. 9/3 He
> is so
> negative. This answer from him to Ms. Geraldine Lucas vibed
> me out
> when I read it. 1994 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 15
> July, 'You
> saw a lot of guys getting vibed,' says..a Sherman Oaks
> surfer. 'There
> was a lot of talk to psych guys out.' 1998 G. MCKAY DiY
> Culture 289
> We'd face-paint each other up, dance about a bit, get a
> rhythm going,
> then we'd go for it..shrilling and ululating... We sure
> as hell vibed
> them out.
> 
>     4. intr. To be inspired by or get a positive feeling
> from a piece
> of music or (fellow) performer; to improvise or perform on
> the basis
> of this. Usu. with off, on.
> 
> 1985 Venue 26 Apr. 17/1 They're keeping reggae music in
> this little
> bag whereas when one (record) comes out you get twenty cuts
> off the
> same thing. They're still vibing on music of about two
> years ago. 1992
> Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 26 Jan. G1 We could get a
> whole feel
> for what kids our age were vibing off of... Sly, Dylan,
> Hendrixthey
> were a collage of music under the heading of rock-and-roll.
> 1999 Blues
> & Soul 13-26 July 31/1 With Jam and Lewis, I wrote the
> whole thing and
> they vibed off me and played a few notes. 2004 Sun-Sentinel
> (Fort
> Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 1 Sept. 3E, A lot of the songs
> just came
> from me vibing to the track, really feeling the music. 2005
> Mich.
> Citizen (Electronic ed.) 4 June B1 People would be dancing
> with their
> eyes closed vibing on the music.
> 
>     5. intr. To interact (well), get along,
> 'click'. Usu. with with.
> 
> 1986 Star & Style (Bombay) 19 Dec. 59/2 We ourselves
> haven't a clue as
> to why we vibe so well with each other. 1995 N.Y. Beacon
> (Electronic
> ed.) 14 Apr. 29 They vibed immediately and decided to
> combine their
> talents to pursue a career as record producers. 2002 S.
> HOLMES B-More
> Careful xxii. 231 It's about compatibility, me and
> Netta just vibe
> better. 2004 Cosmopolitan (N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) June 96,
> I was
> vibing with this chick at a bar, but she seemed blasé
> about
> everything.