hippy
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8.0
- noun
- /ˈhɪpi/
- Archaic
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hippie
- I wanted to meet a hippie chick and have hippie babies in the wild teaching Nigerian children how to read.
- hippy-dippy
- Hippy Shake
- hippy era
These free love, new age hippies be damned, right?
- These free love, new age hippies be damned, right?
- This is more kind of rooted in the Buddhist slash hippie tradition.
- And you know, like I said, I and I'm, I'm not a hippie, but I'm a woodsman, right?
- He's a hitchhiker in California and he was a super like hippie Earth is cool, whatever, whatever.
- Yeah, there's like yoga moms is the big part of Q Anon and and hippies, you know, like ayahuasca.
- Let's just say if we're painting with A broad brush on the right and then you have the hippies and so on and the lefties who are pro drugs.
- And it's not just the hippies who are refusing to use those shampoos or those soaps or whatever.
- I buy into that West Coast kind of selfish hippie thing.
- and it was like a bunch of homeless people running around and weirdos and drug addicts and hippies.
- Whereas yes, there are, it is a little bifurcated because there are, there is a division of the left hippie types who are anti back.
Examples
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In the 1960s, many hippy activists campaigned for peace and social justice.
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DAD wears a "Say No to the Gas Chamber" button, and BIRDIE has turned hippy, wearing tie-dye clothes covered in peace signs.
Fiction book (1994) -
That stupid hippy was right.
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We are literally in hippy town.
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I had no idea what made a hippy, what the little differences might be.
Fiction book (2000) -
And there he was on the cover, sort of a hippy with shades.
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There's a reason I like to retreat to farmers' markets and bulk food "hippy" stores: fewer choices!
Blog text (16) -
Hippies protesting the Vietnam War.
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Nobody's got time for your self-indulgent, hippy-dippy art project.
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And it's not just the hippies who are refusing to use those shampoos or those soaps or whatever.
Synonyms
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6.3
A person who rejects usual rules and prefers peace and simple living
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6.6
A person who prefers alternative clothes, music, and ideas to mainstream culture
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6.8
A young person, especially in the 1960s, who rejects normal values and supports peace and living simply with others
How Nonconformist
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Morphology
Etymology
Hippy comes from the word hip, which meant 'aware' or 'in the know', plus the ending -y that names a person. Young people who were 'hip' to new music and new ideas were called hippies in the 1960s, so the word now means someone who rejects usual rules and lives in a free, different way.