hippie

See also: Hippie

English

Hippies (nonconformists) in Tallinn, 1989

(modern slang) hippie women

Alternative forms

• hippy

Etymology

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭp'i, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpi/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪpi

Noun

hippie (plural hippies)

1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

   Synonym: beatnik

2. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era, sometimes derogatory) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes 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.

   Synonyms: tree hugger, flower child

3. (modern slang, derogatory) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

Derived terms

• antihippie
• ecohippie
• hippie chimp
• hippie clinic
• hippie-dippie
• hippiedom
• hippie flip
• hippie flipping
• hippiehood
• hippieism
• hippielike
• hippiemobile
• hippieness
• hippie punching
• hippietastic
• hippie trail
• huppie
• neohippie
• nonhippie
• posthippie

Related terms

• hip
• hipster

Translations

1960s nonconformist

• Arabic: هِبِيّ m (hibiyy), هِيبِيّ m (hībiyy), خَنْفُوس m (ḵanfūs), بُوهِيمِيّ m (buhīmī)
• Armenian: հիփի (hipʻi), հիպի (hy) (hipi)
• Bulgarian: хипи n (hipi)
• Catalan: hippy m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嬉皮 (zh) (xīpí)

• Czech: hippie m
• Dutch: hippie (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: hipio
• Finnish: hippi (fi)
• French: hippie (fr) m or f, hippy (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ჰიპი (hiṗi)
• German: Hippie (de) m
• Greek: χίππης m (chíppis), χίππισσα f (chíppissa)
• Hebrew: הִיפִּי m (hípi), רוּחְנִיק (he) m (rúẖniq)
• Icelandic: hippi (is) m
• Italian: hippy (it) m or f
• Japanese: ヒッピー (hippī)
• Korean: 히피 (hipi)
• Latvian: hipijs m
• Lithuanian: hipis m, hipė f
• Macedonian: хипик m (hipik)
• Marathi: हिप्पी (hippī)
• Navajo: tsiiyog
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hippie m

  Nynorsk: hippie m

• Polish: hipis (pl) m, hipiska (pl) f
• Portuguese: hippie (pt) m or f
• Romanian: hipiot m
• Russian: хи́ппи (ru) m (xíppi)
• Spanish: hippie (es) m, hippy (es) m
• Swedish: hippie (sv) c
• Turkish: hippi (tr)
• Turkmen: hippi

Adjective

hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

1. Of or pertaining to hippies.

   That dress looks very hippie.

   • 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:

     The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.

   • 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:

     You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.

   • 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:

     And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.

2. (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

   They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

Related terms

• hep
• hip

See also

• feral

Further reading

• hippie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Epiphi

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪpɪjɛ]

Noun

hippie m anim

1. hippie

Declension

Declension of hippie (masculine animate in -ie)

	singular	plural
nominative	hippie	hippiové, hippies
genitive	hippieho	hippiů, hippies
dative	hippiemu	hippiům, hippies
accusative	hippieho	hippie, hippies
vocative	hippie	hippiové, hippies
locative	hippiem	hippiích, hippies
instrumental	hippiem	hippii, hippies

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɪ.pi/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪpi
• Hyphenation: hip‧pie

Noun

hippie m or f (plural hippies, no diminutive)

1. hippie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

Noun

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

1. hippie

Adjective

hippie (plural hippies)

1. hippie

Further reading

• “hippie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hippie and hippy.

Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippier, definite plural hippiene)

1. a hippie or hippy

References

• “hippie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hippie and hippy.

Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippiar, definite plural hippiane)

1. a hippie or hippy

References

• “hippie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.pi/ [ˈhi.pi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.pi/ [ˈhi.pi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.pi/ [ˈχi.pi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.pe/ [ˈhi.pe]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pi/

Noun

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

1. hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)

Derived terms

• ripongo

Further reading

• “hippie”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Alternative forms

• jipi

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxipi/ [ˈxi.pi]
• Rhymes: -ipi
• Syllabification: hip‧pie

Noun

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

1. hippie

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “hippie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

en gitarrspelande hippie

Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

Noun

hippie c

1. a hippie

Declension

Declension of hippie

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hippie	hippies
	definite	hippien	hippiens
plural	indefinite	hippies, hippier	hippies, hippiers
	definite	hippierna	hippiernas

Derived terms

• hippierörelsen (“the hippie movement”)

See also

• progg

References

• “hippie”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hippie”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)