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hippie

hippie

159 6.3
A person who rejects usual rules and prefers peace and simple living
  • noun
  • /ˈhɪpi/
translation icon : hippie
  • The erstwhile hippie haven is now a hangout for hipsters.
  • hippie movement
  • hippie commune
  • hippies and punks

So it's like that hippie mindset could could go anywhere.

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Examples

  • Well, folks, Jonathan and all those hippies were right.

  • She was a little hippie chick.

  • And she was, she was a hippie, no doubt about it, right?

  • And it was too much of A hippie thing to do.

  • Benjamin was still wearing his hair like a hippie then and could not keep still.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Because the first time I came to Amsterdam on the hippie trail, OK, that was a wild time.

  • Summer 1967 in San Francisco, the Summer of Love, the peak of hippie culture.

    Academic text (2017)
  • He's kind of a hippie, maybe sort of a free spirit.

  • My parents were hippies, and yours weren't.

  • In the 1960s, she proudly identified as a hippie, promoting peace and love among her friends.

Synonyms

hippy
vshippie
  • Archaic
30 8.0

A person, often from the 1960s, who lives simply and rejects normal social rules

is identical in meaning but uses the more common spelling
flower child
vshippie
  • Archaic
5 6.8

A young person, especially in the 1960s, who rejects normal values and supports peace and living simply with others

refers more broadly to anyone rejecting conventional values rather than only youths

Antonyms

Holding strongly to old customs and resisting change

2 5.7

A person who follows rules and usual ways instead of trying new ideas

How Hippie

hippie
159 6.3
hippish
  • Archaic
9.4
bohemian
4 7.1

Surface Forms

hippie singular
hippies plural

Morphology

hippie = hip (transparent) = hip + ie

The noun is directly formed from 'hip' with a diminutive/person-forming suffix '-ie', so a learner knowing 'hip' can infer 'hippie' as a person who is hip.

Etymology

Hippie comes from hip, a 1940s slang word meaning 'in the know' or 'aware', and from hipster, a person seen as cool and different. In the 1960s it was used for young people who rejected normal rules and chose peace, love, and simple living, so the origin helps explain why a hippie is someone who lives and thinks differently.