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Definition of Hippie

1. Noun. Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle.

Definition of Hippie

1. Noun. (context: in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks ¹

2. Noun. (context: 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. ¹

3. Noun. Someone with unusually long hair. ¹

4. Noun. Someone who dresses in a hippie style. ¹

5. Noun. One who is hip. ¹

6. Adjective. Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”. ¹

7. Adjective. (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”. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hippie

1. a nonconformist [n -S] - See also: nonconformist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippie

Literary usage of Hippie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... and another by Daniel hippie and others, for materials furnished, and for work and labor in building a cabin on said boat in January, 1860, ..."

2. Ibiza, Formentera by Roland Mischke, Berthold Schwarz (2001)
"hippie MARKETS The hippie movement — once a worldwide Zeitgeist phenomenon ... The first hippie market took place in 1972 on the grounds of the Punta Arahi ..."

3. The Holy City: Historical, Topographical, and Antiquarian Notices of Jerusalem by George Williams, Robert Willis (1849)
"The points to be determined then, are, 1, the site of the hippie Tower ; 2, the position of the Gate Gen- nath, and the line of the Second Wall; 3, ..."

4. The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field by Hugh Miller (1851)
"hippie Markings on a Sandstone Slab. — Boulder Stones. — Inference derived from their water-worn Appearance. — Sea-coast Section. ..."

5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"... John hippie, senator, was born in Washington county, Pa., June 22, 1835. His early years were spent upon a farm where he enjoyed only such school ..."

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