hippie

See also Hippie

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• hippy

Etymology

• 1953, usually disparaging variant of hipster.
• Hippie (etymology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Hippie (etymology)

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭp'i, IPA: /ˈhɪpi/, X-SAMPA: /"hIpi/
• Rhymes: -ɪpi

Noun

hippie (plural hippies)

1. (in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks
2. (in the 1960s; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
3. Someone with unusually long hair.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

Synonyms

• (teenager who imitated the beatniks): beatnik
• (non-conformist in the 1960s): treehugger

Derived terms

• hippiedom

Related terms

• hip
• hipster

Translations

1960s nonconformist

• Arabic: هبي (ar) (híbiy) m, هيبي (ar) (hiibiy) m, خنفوس (ar) (khanfuus) m, بوهيمي (ar) (buhiimiy) m
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嬉皮 (cmn) (xīpí)

• Czech: hippie (cs) m
• Dutch: hippie (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: hipio (eo)
• Finnish: hippi (fi)
• Georgian: ჰიპი (ka) (hipi)
• German: Hippie (de) m
• Greek: χίππης (el) (chíppis) m, χίππισσα (el) (chíppissa) f

• Icelandic: hippi (is) m
• Japanese: ヒッピー (ja) (hippī)
• Korean: 히피 (ko) (hipi)
• Latvian: hipijs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: hipis (lt) m, hipė (lt) f
• Macedonian: хипик (mk) (hípik) m
• Marathi: हिप्पी (mr) (hippī)
• Polish: hipis (pl) m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: хиппи (ru) (xíppi) m (indeclinable)
• Spanish: hippie (es) m, hippy (es) m
• Turkish: hippi (tr)

See also

• feral

Adjective

hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

1. Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
2. (colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.

Synonyms

• beatnik

Related terms

• hep
• hip

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Czech

Noun

hippie m

1. hippie

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Dutch

Noun

hippie m, f (plural hippies)

1. hippie