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• a variation of hippie.

hippy

¹ American  

[hip-ee] / ˈhɪp i /

adjective

• hippier,
  comparative
• hippiest
  superlative

1. having big hips.

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hippy ² American  

[hip-ee] / ˈhɪp i /

noun

• hippies
  plural

1. hippie.

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hippy ¹ British  

/ ˈhɪpɪ /

noun

1. 1. (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc, implied a rejection of conventional values

   2. ( as modifier )

      hippy language

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hippy ² British  

/ ˈhɪpɪ /

adjective

1. informal (esp of a woman) having large hips

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• hippies
  plural

Adjectives

• hippier
  comparative
• hippiest
  superlative

Etymology

Origin of hippy¹

First recorded in 1890–95; hip ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of hippy²

hip ⁴ + -y ²

Example Sentences

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hippy hippies hippier

Hers is maximalist, hippy and eclectic, while her boyfriend dresses like a "typical skater in his 20s", in vintage band T-shirts and Vans in various shades of grey.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2025

I’m usually the hungriest really late at night, so I might order something against my better judgment like the hippy vegan ramen from Tatstu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

It’s not a wild hippy ride of freedom.

From Salon ● May 4, 2024

For more than 50 years, the hippy neighbourhood of Christiania has been a haven of counter-culture, in the very heart of the Danish capital Copenhagen.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

A couturier's model gone hippy; a specialty-shop gone bankrupt; a cashier's books gone over.

From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie

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

Then she is offered a chance to travel with and document a group of hopeful misfits and hippies who are determined to be the first humans to see it rain on Mars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 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

His longtime prescriptions of fresh food, sunshine, regular exercise and meditation are now widely accepted building blocks of health, and are no longer the sole province of ditzy L.A. hippies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

This lady looks like one a them hippies I seen on Miss Leefolt’s tee-vee.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

O'Hanlon recalls McEwan in hippier days, driving an MG with a "Give Peace a Chance" sticker on the back.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011