Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
2. (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.
3. (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.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.
6. Of or pertaining to hippies.
7. (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

Example Sentences

That dress looks very hippie.

The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• hippies
• hippy
• hippier
• hippiest

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