hippie
or hip·py
[hip-ee]
- a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc.
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Compare flower child.
Origin of hippie
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Examples from the Web for hippie
Contemporary Examples
And before you jump to assumptions, know that I'm no hippie.
Soso, played by newcomer Kimiko Glenn, is a hippie in the worst sense of the word.
Orange Is the New Black’s Kimiko Glenn on Hippie Brook Soso and Chapel Sex with Natasha LyonneMarlow Stern
June 18, 2014
And my character in Wild is a little bit more of a hippie than, say, Cal Morrison.
We missed the apogee of the hippie revolution becoming something more serious.
“This hippie boy Suzuki came to the island to listen to the feelings of a Japanese soldier,” recalled Onoda.
Historical Examples
“My mom was in a wheelchair for ten years before she passed,” a hippie told him.
MakersCory Doctorow
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Little BrotherCory Doctorow
hippie
- a variant spelling of hippy 1
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Word Origin and History for hippie
n.
c.1965, American English (Haight-Ashbury slang); earlier hippie, 1953, was a usually disparaging variant of hipster (1941) "person who is keenly aware of the new and stylish," from hip "up-to-date" (see hip (adj.)).
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