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- noun Plural form of
tie-dye . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tie-dye .
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Examples
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Nineteen seventy-eight may have been a wild time for fashion, but I partook of no extremes: no mile-high platform shoes, no garish tie-dyes or fringed leather vests.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Nineteen seventy-eight may have been a wild time for fashion, but I partook of no extremes: no mile-high platform shoes, no garish tie-dyes or fringed leather vests.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Then it occurred to me that when I was a high school student in the 90s, most of my friends and I were wearing tie-dyes and listening to the Dead and CSNY, in part as a deliberate rejection of the dominant 90s aesthetic.
Agnostalgia 2008
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They would bust people for having merch with roses or bones or possible symbols from songs, teddy bears, rainbows, turtles, tie-dyes, you name it.
Grateful Dead shake down NPR over including a song in an online mix - Boing Boing 2008
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I made my frist batch of tie-dyes this past weekend but only used 4 colors.
Pride Cupcakes! ellecupcake 2009
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Vivid paisleys and tie-dyes formed one part of hippie demeanor, as well as marking the wearers as initiates into the hallucinatory mysteries of LSD.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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True, I don't wear tie-dyes, smoke pot, or wear Birks.
In Which I Attract Hippies floreta 2009
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Many of them won't be wearing flowers in their hair, sporting tie-dyes, or touring on Magic Buses.
Dan Worth: From Woodstock to Rothbury: From Activism to Energy Independence 2008
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By 1987, the Grateful Dead were in the top 40, and tie-dyes started appearing in department stores.
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There were still a few demonstrators, listless now, young people in their grimy tie-dyes, and city cops as well, idler still, showing the eternal laden strain of a big meal hustled down the gullet, where it sits for hours earning overtime.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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