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☆ yip·pie (yip′ē)

noun

Slang any of a group of young people in the U.S. loosely organized in 1968 as radical activists

Etymology: < Y(outh) I(nternational) P(arty), a supposed, but nonexistent group + (hip)pie

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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