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• plural of hippy.

hippies

Cultural  

1. Members of a movement of cultural protest that began in the United States in the 1960s and affected Europe before fading in the 1970s. Hippies were bound together by rejection of many standard American customs and social and political views (see counterculture). The hippies often cultivated an unkempt image in their dress and grooming and were known for practices such as communal living, free love, and the use of marijuana and other drugs. Although hippies were usually opposed to involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War, their movement was fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest. (See Woodstock; compare beatniks.)

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Back then, Folger says, the rural western outpost was filled with "back-to-the-land hippies, college students, cowboys and ski bums".

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

When Gerald Shreiber walked into a water-bed store in Philadelphia one day in 1971, he expected it to be run by a couple of hippies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

But Bodo's toothbrush-waving "fish hippies" are not the only fans enjoying underdog stories this season, across Europe clubs are battling above their board.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

In many ways, the pharma-focused psychedelics movement is just reinventing the wheel that West Coast hippies have been spinning since the 1960s, and many Indigenous communities for centuries before them.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026

Some hippies barricaded themselves in the Science Building, in the lone bomb shelter, and refused to let anyone in who didn’t know the words to “Sugar Magnolia.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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