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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Example Sentences

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

What he got instead were customers who remembered the Great Depression and associated beans with feeling poor and “bitter hippies from the food co-op” horrified that his beans were so expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

Dubbing it “the Californian Ideology,” they argued that the “new faith” blended the “freewheeling spirit of the hippies with the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies.”

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025

In fact, said Bunny McDiarmid—then a 28-year-old deckhand sailing her first mission on the Warrior—they were hippies who happened to be very skilled at their jobs.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

She tells him she was raised on a commune in Vermont, the child of hippies, educated at home until the seventh grade.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri