hippie

Alternative forms

• hippy

Etymology

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also Hippie (etymology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭp'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpi/
• Rhymes: -ɪpi

Noun

hippie (plural hippies)

1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
2. (1960s slang; 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. (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

Adjective

hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

1. Of or pertaining to hippies.

   That dress looks very hippie.

   • 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:

     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.

   • 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:

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

1. (colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

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

See also

• feral

Anagrams

• Epiphi

Noun

hippie m

1. hippie

Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: hip‧pie

Noun

hippie m, f (plural hippies)

1. hippie

Noun

hippie m, f (plural hippies)

1. hippie

Adjective

hippie (plural hippies)

1. hippie

Etymology

From English hippie and hippy

Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippier, definite plural hippiene)

1. a hippie or hippy

References

• “hippie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From English hippie and hippy

Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippiar, definite plural hippiane)

1. a hippie or hippy

References

• “hippie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Noun

hippie m, f (plural hippies)

1. hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)

Noun

hippie m, f (plural hippies)

1. hippie