hippie
See also: Hippie
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also
Pronunciation
- enPR: hĭp'i, IPA(key): /ˈhɪpi/
- Rhymes: -ɪpi
Noun
hippie (plural hippies)
- (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
- (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
- Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- One who is hip.
Synonyms
- (teenager who imitated the beatniks): beatnik
- (non-conformist in the 1960s): treehugger
Translations
1960s nonconformist
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Adjective
hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)
- Of or pertaining to hippies.
- That dress looks very hippie.
- 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:
- The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.
- 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:
- You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.
- 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:
- And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.
- (colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
- They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
Synonyms
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Czech
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Pronunciation
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