Definitions
Etymologies
- From Y(outh) I(nternational) P(arty) (influenced by hippie). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Norman Mailer was not a "yippie" but he was going to march.”
"It's a negative intensity" between John McCain and Sarah Palin.
“yippie" when I'd come home and discover my parents had left for the cape for the weekend - today I'd give anything to spend an hour with them.”
“Though today I mean "yippie-skippy" in its less ironic/sarcastic form, because last night at 9: 00 pm, I finished the rough draft of RESURRECTION CODE.”
“In Colorado, a growing number of marijuana dispensaries are going upscale, launching sophisticated "wellness centers" that look like spas and putting them at odds with the traditional hippie-yippie, buck-the-system stoner culture.”
“Thirty-five years ago, President Gerald Ford set out to replace liberal icon William O. Douglas -- the same Justice Douglas whom Ford, as a member of Congress, had attempted to impeach due to "hippie-yippie" - ness five years earlier -- using one simple criterion: "the finest legal mind I could find.”
The Huffington Post: Want Another Warren Court? Try Justice Warren
“Some panic and run, rationalizing that the system is going to collapse anyway of its own rot and corruption and so they're copping out, going hippie or yippie, taking drugs, trying communes, anything to escape.”
“The first half of the film is about Lennon the charismatic peacemaker, and it implies that if Nixon hadn ' t hounded him so much, his yippie friends Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman could have taken over the country.”
“Even on the left, the bacchanalian, yippie, gonzo journalism engaging musings on sex and drugs at times seem to confront a renewed Puritanism -- biographically, my writing on the subjects is mostly limited to blogs.”
“The lead, a Jim Morrison-Abby Hoffman hybrid known as Berger, swings an axe at that fourth wall right from the get-go, as he gamely confronts several unsuspecting individuals in the audience in a yippie-inflected version of a Don Rickles Borscht Belt routine.”
“It's an innovative publishing effort that one-ups Abbie Hoffman's yippie manifesto Steal This Book.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yippie’.
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Vuppies
Various urban professionals, and other such pies. (related to wealth, labor, class, etc.)
yuppie, duppie, luppie, yettie, skippie, huppie, scuppie, yupster, buppie, guppie, yippie, zippie and 65 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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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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Arise, Hippikins and Hippettes
A list of what are generally-accepted to be hippy words. List names derives from this quote by Germaine Greer, "To see hippikins and hippettes milling miserably around among the Mecca gorillas who ...
hippikin, hippette, groovy, split, fuzz, cool, hepcat, dig, threads, gut wadding, peace out, dude and 36 more...
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dakinigrl's Words
wamsutta, weimaraner, labradoodle, pliable, shiny, pony, consternation, plethora, peruse, buffoonery, bastard, absinthe and 64 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for yippie.
bilby "Apartment lobbies are good for all kinds of neat furniture. If you want to get fancy about it, rent a truck (not one that says U-HAUL-IT or other rental markings) and make the pick-up with moving-man-type uniforms. When schools are on strike and students hold seminars and debate into the night, Yippies can be found going through the dorm lobbies and storage closets hauling off couches, desks, printing supplies, typewriters, mimeos, etc. to store in secret underground nests. A nervy group of Yippies in the Midwest tried to swipe a giant IBM 360 computer while a school was in turmoil. All power to those that bring a wheelbarrow to sit-ins."
- Abbie Hoffman, 'Steal This Book'. Feb 18, 2009
treeseed The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on "Hippies") was a highly theatrical and anti-authoritarian political party established in the United States in 1967. An offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s, the Yippies presented a more radically youth-oriented and countercultural alternative to those movements. They employed theatrical gestures—such as advancing a pig ("Pigasus the Immortal") as a candidate for President in 1968—to mock the social status quo. The Yippies had no formal membership or hierarchy: Abbie Hoffman, Anita Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Nancy Kurshan, and Paul Krassner were among the founders of the Yippies (according to his own account, Krassner coined the name).
_Wikipedia Feb 2, 2008