Vibe

Vibe \vahyb\ , noun;
1. Informal: Vibration

Vibe dates to 1940 as a shortening of vibraphone, which is one of these:

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Vibe as an abbreviation of vibration is first attested in 1967, though its slang sense of "instinctive feelings" is attributed to the whole decade of the 1960's.