Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who opposes and rejects many of the conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Wiktionary
- n. in the 1950s A teenager who imitated the beatniks
- n. in the 1960s; still widely used in reference to that era One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes 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.
- n. Someone with unusually long hair.
- n. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- n. One who is hip.
- adj. Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
- adj. 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”.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Someone who rejects the established culture, dresses casually, and advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle. Used especially of those in the late 1960's, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, who conspicuously rejected traditional culture by dressing casually, if male wore their hair long, and wore folksy or used clothing adorned with beads, headbands, and often flowers; they emphasized the importance of love and direct personal relations rather than success-oriented businesslike behavior, strove for spontaneity, sometimes lived communally, and in some cases tried to expand their consciousness by various psychological techniques such as meditation, or through the use of consciousness-altering drugs such as marijuana or LSD. By the end of the Vietnam war in the 1970's, the numbers of people living a visibly hippie lifestyle had dramatically decreased, though some people continue to develop similar views and live with the same outlook.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
Etymologies
- From hip2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Etymologists are uncertain about exactly when the word hippie came into existence, although it is clearly a variation of the term hipster, which had been in use during the forties, in reference to devotees of jazz music.”
“The idea may put them off maybe the word hippie comes to mind, but she's found that many CEOs really take to it.”
“Use of the term hippie did not catch on in the mass media until early 1967, after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen began referring to hippies in his daily columns.”
“In an article entitled "A New Haven for Beatniks," San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.”
“Madrak asked, "I'm a blogger, and I don't know if you know this term, but are you familiar with the term hippie-punching?”
“Many conservatives and liberals alike favor the legalization of Cannibis, and I agree with Cracker about the term hippie being rather antiquated.”
“Of course the bill does not go into effect until 2014 anyway, but punch a hippie is a popular past time. brewmn says:”
“Some hippie is selling didgeridoos that he made I between bong reps.”
Professor Florida's kids get *really* creative (Jack Bog's Blog)
“House speaker Nancy Pelosi must of been a radical hippie from the 60s I am about her age and think nothing like her.”
“Georgia is a long way from San Francisco," drawls the announcer as people dressed in hippie garb wave their hands at the camera in some sort of strange flower-power dance.”
The Washington Post: Ad of the day: Dem ad depicts San Francisco as full of hippies
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hippie’.
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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•Words We Use Here That Would Tick Of...
Or, Things That Get a Whole Lot More Fun With an -ie Ending.
See conversation on git, and have at it!
Edit: Many of the following are madeupical, but many are not. See als...wordie, foodie, roadie, cookie, prosie, poetrie, tunie, scriptie, democracie, pompous old gittie, funnie, hippie and 156 more...
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Hip, hip, hooray!
"I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."
--Zaphod Beeblebroxhip, hips, hipster, Hip, hip, hooray!, rosehip, hippo, hip-huggers, Hippocratic oath, hippocampus, eohippus, hippocrepian, hippie and 30 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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lovely words
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Not NUXiY
What NUXiY isnt!
political correct, collectivist, gay, sexy, hot, sweet, orwellian, banana, fat, black, mainstream, feminist and 21 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Sucks to Be You
Words that are the basis for ridicule, misunderstanding, and shunning.
midget, effeminate, gay, fag, retard, cripple, blonde, jock, androgynous, hermaphrodite, muslim, pedophile and 7 more...
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nltl119's Words
catharsis, sponge, rhapsody, triceratops, tacit, bellicose, frothing, infer, nootropic, tarantula, meow, shpadoinkle and 8 more...
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ElisabethIC's Words
rosebud, coffee, aura-soma, candyman, tea, herbs, supercalifragilis..., willy wonka, rooibus, after eight, glow, wooot and 17 more...
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dirtygreek's Words
wanker, treehugger, fun, plank, road, eggcorn, curry, life, earth, molecule, organic, spooky and 14 more...
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bccall's Words
schadenfreude, feckless, trawl, dhyana, yoga, sannyasin, ameliorate, wazoo, equitable, grace, prana, pranayama and 50 more...
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