- a variation of hippie.
hippy
1 Americanadjective
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hippier,
comparative
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hippiest
superlative
noun
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hippies
plural
noun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of hippy1
First recorded in 1890–95; hip 1 + -y 1
Origin of hippy2
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It isn’t unusual to see hippy travelers, families in orthodox clothing and women in hijab on flights that also typically teem with kids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
"Me, I wasn't a hippy back then, but I knew a lot of hippies," he says with his characteristic laugh.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
The infield of the Derby – the general admission area inside the racetrack where you couldn’t catch a glimpse of a horse – was a hippy fest of Biblical proportions during my youth.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
David Crosby was an awesome musician, singer, songwriter, and defined a serious look for aging hippy dudes with long hair, bald tops, and funky mustaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
A couturier's model gone hippy; a specialty-shop gone bankrupt; a cashier's books gone over.
From Gaslight Sonatas by Fannie Hurst
Over time, it went from being a utilitarian tool for the countryside to a cult classic, and a favourite of hippies and counter-culturalists.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In that very funny tract, Rosten addressed young baby boom radicals: leftists who had lost faith in America because of the war in Vietnam and reactionaries who wanted to ban hippies from college campuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
All kinds of mostly white hippies with long, hanging hair.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
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