Hippie
Pronunciation
- enPR: hÄp'i, IPA: /ˈhɪpi/
- Rhymes: -ɪpi
Alternative forms
Origin
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also .
Full definition of hippie
Noun
hippie
(plural hippies)- (in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- (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.
- Someone with unusually long hair.
- Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- One who is hip.
Synonyms
- (teenager who imitated the beatniks) beatnik
- (non-conformist in the 1960s) treehugger
Derived terms
Adjective
hippie
- Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie eraâ€.
- (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 insteadâ€.