Hippie

Quick meaning: Hippie is a noun meaning (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
2. One who is hip.
3. Of or pertaining to hippies.
4. (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
5. (modern slang, derogatory) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
6. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era, sometimes derogatory) 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.

Example Sentences

That dress looks very hippie.

And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.

They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

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.

Word Forms

• hippies
• hippy
• hippier
• hippiest

Synonyms for hippie

Depending on context, synonyms include beatnik, hippy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buddy, dude, pal, mate, hippie-dippie, hipster.

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