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hippie Definition

☆ hip·pie (hip′ē)

noun

  1. any of the young people of the 1960s and 1970s who, in their alienation from conventional society, turned variously to mysticism, psychedelic drugs, communal living, etc.
  2. any person having a similar lifestyle

Etymology: < hip + -ie

hippie* Synonyms

hippie*

modif.

unorthodox, psychedelic, mod*; see radical 2, unconventional, unusual 2.

hippie Synonyms

hippie

n.

Bohemian, radical, dropout, protestor, demonstrator, nonconformist, dissenter, flower child*, yippie*, peacenik*, hipster*, longhair*; see also beatnik, radical.

hippie Usage Examples

Possessives

  • favorite: Nag Champa incense - the hippies ' favorite from the 60s - is probably the best-selling incense fragrance on the planet!

Converse of object

  • age: Everyone from small children to aging hippies seemed to be having a blow.
  • tree-hugging: You want to get everyone from tree-hugging hippies to crazed paranoid gunmen.
  • include: His admirers have included hippies, punk rockers, readers of science fiction, football fans.
  • become: Would any of them, had they arrived at adolescence in the sixties, have become hippies?
  • hate: Mike, who calls himself " editor " hates hippies!
  • feature: The survey has been conducted by Internet service provider Freeserve following the return of an advertising campaign for the firm featuring hippies and druids.

Adjective modifier

  • old: Avalon Main Stage, Saturday 26th June An old saying: ' Old hippies never die they just fade away ' - not true.
  • few: A bit of T&A and a few hairy hippies was one thing, but dissing The Boss's Lad was in a different galaxy.
  • former: Andrew Purvis meets the former hippie on his farm in Wales.
  • young: Another vortex phenomenon case involved a group of young hippies who were camped out inside Stonehenge when the stones were struck by lightning.
  • haired: The Fantastic Four was for long haired proto- hippies.
  • radical: The radical hippies were liberals in the social sense of the word.

Modifies a noun

  • commune: According to Levy, cyberspace therefore is the online version of a hippie commune.
  • trail: Also the constant flow of travelers through the capital cities provided a constant organic link with all the stopping points on the hippie trail.
  • self: In the first sequence, what appeared to be a slide of Berger's youthful hippie self was projected behind Berger as he talked.
  • mother: This is from amazon Bruno and Michel are half-brothers, born to a hippie mother who believed in following her bliss.
  • movement: How flaming difficult can it be to differentiate between the punk rock movement and the hippie movement?
  • generation: This period saw the flowering of the hippie generation.

Noun used with modifier

  • 1960s: But the 1960s hippie dream of free love turned sour in the 1970s.