hippie

See also: Hippie

English

Hippies (nonconformists) in Tallinn, 1989

Alternative forms

Etymology

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also Hippie (etymology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hĭp'i, IPA(key): /ˈhɪpi/
  • Rhymes: -ɪpi

Noun

hippie (plural hippies)

  1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  5. One who is hip.

Synonyms

  • (teenager who imitated the beatniks): beatnik
  • (non-conformist in the 1960s): treehugger

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

  1. 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.
  1. (colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
    They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

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Czech

Noun

hippie m

  1. hippie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: hip‧pie

Noun

hippie m or f (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

French

Noun

hippie m or f (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

Adjective

hippie (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hippie and hippy

Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippier, definite plural hippiene)

  1. a hippie or hippy

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hippie and hippy

Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippiar, definite plural hippiane)

  1. a hippie or hippy

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Portuguese

Noun

hippie m, f (plural hippies)

  1. hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)

Spanish

Noun

hippie m or f (plural hippies)

  1. hippie
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