hip-pie
i noun
a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc.
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| —n , pl -pies | |
| a. (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc, implied a rejection of conventional values | |
| b. (as modifier): hippy language | |
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Word Origin & History
hippie
c.1965, Amer.Eng. (Haight-Ashbury slang), from earlier hippie, 1953, usually a disparaging variant of hipster (1941) "person who is keenly aware of the new and stylish," from hip "up-to-date" (see hip (adj.)).
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hippy definition[ˈhɪpi]and hippie
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