peace signs
Hippie hand gestures
Peace signs are hand gestures made by extending the index and middle fingers in a V shape.
The gesture gained prominence as an antiwar symbol during the 1960s and remains associated with peace movements and counterculture.
In photographs, people often flash peace signs as a casual, friendly pose: She threw up a peace sign for the camera.
With the palm facing inward, the same gesture is an obscene insult in British culture.
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
- two fingersDigit pair raised
- hand gestureMotion made with fingers
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- BoomersAARP, AARP member, empty nester, empty nesters, grandparent
- 70s Activismantiwar movement, Black Power, boycotts, Cesar Chavez, consciousness raising
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, draft resistance
- peacepeacefully, dove, dove release, olive branch, white flag
- Sixtieshippies, Beatles, Woodstock, Vietnam War, JFK
peace signsclenched fists
Hands tightly closed
Nazi salutes · middle fingers · raised fists · war cries · snarls
peace signsswastikas
Hooked cross emblems
military insignia · crosshairs · skull and crossbones · Confederate flags · iron crosses
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