hippie
See also: Hippie
English
    

Hippies (nonconformists) in Tallinn, 1989

(modern slang) hippie women
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Etymology
    
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.
Pronunciation
    
- enPR: hĭp'i, IPA(key): /ˈhɪpi/
- Audio (UK) - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ɪpi
Noun
    
hippie (plural hippies)
- (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- Synonym: beatnik
 
- (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) 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.
- Synonyms: treehugger, flower child
 
- (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
- Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- One who is hip.
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Translations
    
1960s nonconformist
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Adjective
    
hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)
- 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.
 
 
- (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
- They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
 
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Declension
    
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Pronunciation
    
- Audio - (file) 
- Hyphenation: hip‧pie
French
    
    
Further reading
    
- “hippie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
    
    
References
    
- “hippie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
    
    
References
    
- “hippie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Spanish
    
    Alternative forms
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈxipi/ [ˈxi.pi]
- Rhymes: -ipi
Usage notes
    
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
    
- “hippie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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