hippy1
[hip-ee]
- having big hips.
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Origin of hippy1
hippy2
[hip-ee]
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Origin of hippy2
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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Contemporary Examples
Regardless, that goes double for a hippy isle full of expats and pungent pot known as Bocas del Toro.
The Clinton Foundation chose Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the first Too Small to Fail project because it was an early adopter of HIPPY.
Or the inimitable Oregon Country Fair, a 45,000-person, three-day Woodstock-esque hippy festival in the woods outside Eugene.
Was Ananda Marchildon too fat, or, specifically, too hippy to receive the €75,000 in assignments promised by the show?
Dutch Model Deemed ‘Too Fat’ Gets Her Day in Court and Poses to Prove Her PointNadette De Visser
March 6, 2012
Historical Examples
Hippy said he pounded and shouted and howled and wailed and pounded some more.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
You haven't seen the bride's table in the tent yet, have you, Hippy?
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
Hippy said he would accompany her, but Grace shook her head.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky MountaineersJessie Graham Flower
"We have seen him only once since you were here," Hippy informed him.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky MountaineersJessie Graham Flower
"That is what we are trying to find out," Hippy informed him.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky MountaineersJessie Graham Flower
hippy1
hippie
- (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc, implied a rejection of conventional values
- (as modifier)hippy language
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Word Origin
C20: see hip 4
hippy2
- informal (esp of a woman) having large hips
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hippie
- a variant spelling of hippy 1
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Word Origin and History for hippy
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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