hippie

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She's a psychopathic vegan hippie, which isn't something you see every day.

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  1. noun 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.

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  • Tripping across the galaxy like some blithe space-hippie, Keaflyn undergoes spiritual and physical transformations that rival anything in Sheckley for both comic implausibility and surprising pathos. —  FSF,September2004
  • What I like about the name River is, it's unusual and kind of hippie-ish, yes, but it's definitely not off-the-wall. —  WordPress.com News
  • This DVD will teach you more about the ganja than you could learn from an aging hippie, a bloody-eyed Rasta and a bleach-blond California dude combined. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • It does not matter whether you are a BlogSpot hippie, a TypePad junkie or you belong to the cult of WordPress (both of them). —  The Blog Herald
  • Part-hippie, part-metrosexual, this new breed of style-and-green-conscious individual goes to day spas that use organic skincare, thinks before flying long distance and prefers to holiday at local eco-resorts, drinks Fair Trade coffee, walks to the corner store, buys locally produced food and always pushes the small button on the toilet.
 

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