Hippie Definition

hipē

hippies, hippy

noun

hippies

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.

Webster's New World

Any person having a similar lifestyle.

Webster's New World

(in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

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Someone with unusually long hair.

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Someone who dresses in a hippie style.

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adjective

Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.

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(colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.

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Other Word Forms of Hippie

Noun

Singular:

hippie

Plural:

hippies

Origin of Hippie

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also Hippie (etymology) on Wikipedia..

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From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition