• Hippie

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: hÄ­p'i, IPA: /ˈhɪpi/
    • Rhymes: -ɪpi

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    Origin

    From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also .

    Full definition of hippie

    Noun

    hippie

    (plural hippies)
    1. (in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
    2. (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.
    3. Someone with unusually long hair.
    4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
    5. One who is hip.

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    Adjective

    hippie

    1. Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
    2. (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”.

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