: a person belonging to or identified with a politically active group of hippies
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The politically correct fun police of the American left of that era were a backlash against the wild era of hippies and yippies in which Baby Boomers like the Clintons had come of age.
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
Back then, Lehrer’s show was already a pillar of the city’s local media, listened to by yuppies and yippies and youse guys alike.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
In the fresh extended footage shown, DiCaprio’s former yippie Bob is seen negotiating with a difficult underground rebel contact who knows the whereabouts of his daughter (played by Chase Infiniti).
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
This is the way hippies, yippies, and Marxists used to talk.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024
In other words, if a Willis deepfake appears in an American ad for potato chips, then a claim becomes viable; if someone deepfakes Willis’ yippie-ki-yay swagger into a home movie and throws it on YouTube, the actor may not have much of a case.
—WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the Youth International Party, better known as the yippies, decided that the Pentagon was in need of an exorcism—and a levitation.
—Wired, 30 Oct. 2019
The hippies and yippies who wanted to levitate the massive 3.7 million-square-foot building couldn’t fully encircle it as planned — though the exorcism was more about theatrics than anything else.
—Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
Back then, Lehrer’s show was already a pillar of the city’s local media, listened to by yuppies and yippies and youse guys alike.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
In the fresh extended footage shown, DiCaprio’s former yippie Bob is seen negotiating with a difficult underground rebel contact who knows the whereabouts of his daughter (played by Chase Infiniti).
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
This is the way hippies, yippies, and Marxists used to talk.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024
In other words, if a Willis deepfake appears in an American ad for potato chips, then a claim becomes viable; if someone deepfakes Willis’ yippie-ki-yay swagger into a home movie and throws it on YouTube, the actor may not have much of a case.
—WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the Youth International Party, better known as the yippies, decided that the Pentagon was in need of an exorcism—and a levitation.
—Wired, 30 Oct. 2019
The hippies and yippies who wanted to levitate the massive 3.7 million-square-foot building couldn’t fully encircle it as planned — though the exorcism was more about theatrics than anything else.
—Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
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“Yippie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yippie. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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