hippie

• hippy

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

• enPR: hĭp'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpi

hippie (plural hippies)

1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

   Synonym: beatnik

2. (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

3. (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.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

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• hipster

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.

2. (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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• hippie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Epiphi

Borrowed from English hippie.

hippie m

1. hippie

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Borrowed from English hippie.

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• Hyphenation: hip‧pie

hippie m or f (plural hippies)

1. hippie

From English hippie.

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

1. hippie

hippie (plural hippies)

1. hippie

• “hippie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English hippie and hippy.

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

1. a hippie or hippy

• “hippie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English hippie and hippy.

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

1. a hippie or hippy

• “hippie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

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

1. jipi

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxipi/ [ˈxi.pi]
• Rhymes: -ipi

hippie m or f (plural hippies)

1. hippie

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.

• “hippie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014