yippie

noun

yip·​pie ˈyi-pē 

: a person belonging to or identified with a politically active group of hippies

Examples of yippie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bruce Willis, who stars in the film as yippie-ki-yaying detective John McClane, visited the building in 2022, climbing up to the roof where his character nearly died a half-dozen times. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025

The nineteen-fifties and sixties and even the early seventies were still a time of innocence and hope in Pakistan, echoed around the world in the florescence of the hippies and yippies and the dancing youth. — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025

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. — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 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

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

Word History

Etymology

Youth International Party + -ie (as in hippie)

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for yippie

• hippie
• hippy
• tippy