hippie
or hip·py
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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Origin of hippie
1- Compare flower child.
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How to use hippie in a sentence
Like many in the Triangle, Stein is a second-generation farmer, tending a 5,000-square-foot plot inherited from his parents—hippies who bought the land for cheap in the 1970s during the “Back to the Land” movement.
The founders of Ben & Jerry’s may be known as hippie throwbacks, but in many ways they were ahead of their time.
Weekend edition—Ben & Jerry’s politics, rethinking GMOs, Bezos in space | Sarah Todd | July 24, 2021 | QuartzI was about this tall with all this hair and I was listening to hippie music.
In rural areas, she puts an American flag on her bicycle, which she said makes the locals feel like she’s one of them, “even if I’m a hippie on a bike.”
How to take an overnight trip with your two-wheeled vehicle | Melanie D.G. Kaplan | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostYoung hippie couples on holiday who’ve unwittingly befriended a murderer suddenly lose their dinners or pass out in puddles of puke.
Netflix’s Serial Killer Drama The Serpent Is Nihilistic Murder Porn in Prestige True-Crime Packaging | Judy Berman | March 26, 2021 | Time
And before you jump to assumptions, know that I'm no hippie.
Ex-hippie Billy Hayes was busted for smuggling hash and thrown in a terrifying Turkish prison.
The Unbelievable (True) Story of the World’s Most Infamous Hash Smuggler | Marlow Stern | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Israel, the hippie-hangout of Akhziv Land added its claim to independence to the already-contentious land of Israel.
So You Want to Rule a Kingdom? A Wacky History of One-Man Nations | Nina Strochlic | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is a local hippie, the most Zen out of all of us in the apartment.
Soso, played by newcomer Kimiko Glenn, is a hippie in the worst sense of the word.
Orange Is the New Black’s Kimiko Glenn on Hippie Brook Soso and Chapel Sex with Natasha Lyonne | Marlow Stern | June 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUp ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Little Brother | Cory Doctorow“My mom was in a wheelchair for ten years before she passed,” a hippie told him.
Makers | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for hippie
/ (ˈhɪpɪ) /
a variant spelling of hippy 1
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