ABSTRACT
Now, I didn’t know chilled, but I did know chilled out, which had (and has) the same meaning. Because I am a child of punk, this phrase could only be used mordantly, with an affected Californian accent, when telling someone to ‘chill out and be mellow, maaan’ while listening to music which was, to my taste, ‘atrocious hippy drivel’; it was certainly part of my active vocabulary, however.
