hippy

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hippy
Adjective
  • Harbor's enjoyably over-the-top Red Guardian continues to be a paunchy steal-stealer, Pullman scores a nice MCU debut as a complex mystery man, and Louis-Dreyfus reigns as a deliciously snarky antagonist.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • From the faded velvet booths, Instagram-happy tourists sidle up against paunchy men wearing trousers the same hue as their salmon terrine.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That’s not to say that the potbellied courthouse stooges of Norfolk County can’t rig the case.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Perun summoned a potbellied officer from the T.D.F. brigade to the operations center.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Torry’s candidly dumpy, dingy, dated, wood panel lined courtroom allowed for the placement of contemporary art and the banging of nails into walls which would have been forbidden in one of the ornate ground floor courtrooms.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The Slip concerns sixteen-year-old Nathaniel Rothstein, a dumpy sad sack who, after getting into a fight at school, is sent to live with his uncle in Austin for the summer of 1998.
    Lucas Schaefer June 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • The billboard, which faces north at 11th and Grand avenues, depicts Trump shirtless, flabby, and chest-deep in murky water, wearing a golden crown.
    Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
  • There is a counterargument on Musk, rooted in two factors: One is that Musk’s disruption was aimed at a federal government that many Americans agree is swollen and flabby.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • There are a bunch of exercises out there that fill a similar role, challenging the same muscles as the squat—namely, your quads, hamstrings, and glutes.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 July 2025
  • Fifty-three industrial plants are invited to squat there, in the center of the city, and the smell of decomposition and putrefaction and acidification, a stew of sulfur, chlorine, lye, and ammonia, suffuses the air.
    Caroline Fraser June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • The New Shepard capsule's stubby single-stage booster roared to life just after 9:38 a.m. EDT, throttled up to full thrust and smoothly climbed away from Blue Origin's launch site near Van Horn, Texas.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 29 June 2025
  • Videos posted to TikTok, Instagram and X in recent weeks show men braving blades very close to their eyes, in barber shops from Turkey to New Zealand, in a quest for stubby lashes.
    Nicole Mowbray, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The burly 22-year-old just needed something to go right.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
  • Emanuel Hershberger—Manny to his friends—has an iron handshake, a bushy chin-strap beard, and the burly shoulders of a man who spends his downtime tending a 40-acre farm without mechanized equipment.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 June 2025
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“Hippy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hippy. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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