hippie

noun hip·pie \ ˈhi-pē \

variants: or hippy

|Updated on: 13 Aug 2018

Definition of hippie

plural hippies

: a usually young person who rejects the mores of established society (as by dressing unconventionally or favoring communal living) and advocates a nonviolent ethic; broadly : a long-haired unconventionally dressed young person

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hippiedom

play \ˈhi-pē-dəm\ noun

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hippieish

play \ˈhi-pē-ish\ adjective

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hippieness

or hippiness play \ˈhi-pē-nəs\ noun

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Examples of hippie in a Sentence

She used to be a hippie, but she's fairly conservative now.
The band appeals to a new generation of hippies.

Recent Examples of hippie from the Web

What kind of hippie skin treatment is tea tree oil?

— ashley weatherford, The Cut, "A Guide to Megan Markle’s Favorite Anti-Acne Oil," 13 July 2018
In other hands the film might have been a smug fable of virtuous hippies—not just tree-huggers but tree-dwellers—versus straight, rigid society.

— joe morgenstern, WSJ, "‘Leave No Trace’ Review: Love Under Siege," 28 June 2018
Other picturesque way stations include the Big Sur estate of one of Grandpa’s wealthy customers (Peter Fonda), a Buddhist monastery and the home of a hippie art forger (Christopher Lloyd).

— michael o’sullivan, kansascity, "‘Boundaries’: Pot-dealing Christopher Plummer plus adorable dogs equals fun road movie," 5 July 2018
Mama Bird Recordings in Portland, Oregon, has been positioning itself at the center of the transcendental hippie coffee shop scene by releasing album after album of dreamy, meditative folk.

— noah berlatsky, Chicago Reader, "Folk musician Haley Heynderickx cultivates a different garden," 5 July 2018
Here, attendees exchange hippie headbands for cowboy hats and gladiator sandals for boots and do-si-do under a neon moon to some of country's brightest stars.

— taysha murtaugh, Country Living, "Everything You Need to Know Before Attending a Country Music Festival," 1 June 2018
His white mother, a wandering hippie and spiritual seeker, later converted to evangelical Christianity and denounced his father’s religious practices as demonic.

— New York Times, "With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic," 31 May 2018
Did some touchy-feely old hippie once say that a rut is just a groove that lasts too long?

— heather havrilesky, The Cut, "‘I’m Starting a New Life, But There’s So Much Pressure to Get It Right!’," 30 May 2018
To start, the Spring 2019 collection on display was inspired by two concurrent youth movements: the ’60s countercultural hippies of the West and the Maoist Great Cultural Revolution of China.

— monica kim, Vogue, "A New Chinese Expat Label Turns Cross-Cultural Dialogue Into Very Cool Clothes," 4 July 2018

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Origin and Etymology of hippie

⁴hip + -ie

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hippie

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Definition of hippie for English Language Learners

: a usually young person who rejects established social customs (such as by dressing in an unusual way or living in a commune) and who opposes violence and war; especially : a young person of this kind in the 1960s and 1970s

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hippie

noun hip·pie

variants: or hippy \ˈhi-pē\

Definition of hippie for Students

plural hippies

: a usually young person who rejects the values and practices of society and opposes violence and war

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