hippie

See also Hippie

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• hippy

Etymology

1953, usually disparaging variant of hipster.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭp'i, IPA: /ˈhɪpi/, 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. 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. 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: please add this translation if you can

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. and f. (plural hippies, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. hippie