flower power

[flou-er pou-er]

noun

1. a slogan used by and associated with flower children of the 1960s and 1970s as representative of a movement for nonviolence, passive resistance, and universal love.

flower power

noun

1. informal,  a youth cult of the late 1960s advocating peace and love, using the flower as a symbol; associated with drug-taking. Its adherents were known as flower children or flower people

Word History and Origins

Origin of flower power¹

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70

Example Sentences

Daltrey says “the days of flower power and hippies” was an eye-opening experience, but the biggest impact was the drug culture.

From Los Angeles Times

She was only into the peace, love and flower power, which was also going on at that time.

From Los Angeles Times

Tom Morello also once described Osbourne’s voice as the sound of “the no-hope working class driving a stake through the heart of the flower power generation.”

From Salon

Today, Haynes tries to replicate 70% of her most popular core patterns such as sunrise travel mugs, petal power vases and flower power butter keepers.

From Los Angeles Times

A countercultural thoroughfare in the late 1960s, the street retained next to nothing of its once colorful flower power.

From Los Angeles Times