hippie
nounEtymology
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.
Definitions
A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms
One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for…
A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
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Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
One who is hip.
Of or pertaining to hippies.
- That dress looks very hippie.
- The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.
- You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.
Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
- They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
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