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hippie, hippy, n. and a. slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈhɪpɪ|
[f. hip a. + -y suffix6.]
A. n. A hipster; a person, usually exotically dressed, who is, or is taken to be, given to the use of hallucinogenic drugs; a beatnik.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of hippies.
1953D. Wallop Night Light 157 Man, I really get a bellyful of these would be hippies. 1959Village Voice 18 Nov. 13 Imagine coming on so jaded,..so hippie,..and fed up. 1965New Yorker 24 July 27 All the hippies are leaving for the New World. 1967Daily Tel. 21 Feb. 16/3 These people, ‘writers, musicians, psychedelic popsters and hippies..’ see London as a ‘focal city for permissive experiments’ in art and life. 1967Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 2 Apr. 63/1 A hippie is the LSD Age's equivalent of a beatnik, and they turn on with marihuana, LSD, benzedrine or merely with the idea of turning-on. 1967Spectator 7 July 32/3 Promises that in future they will live in accordance with the principles of love demanded by the hippies. 1967Guardian 12 July 1/7 Have you ever been to the hippie district [of San Francisco]? 1967New Statesman 27 Oct. 531/3 The [demonstration] marches cannot end the war, whether they are moderate and middle-class, insurrectionist, hippy or whatever. 1968Times 16 Dec. 5/3 About 1,000 Hippies from several countries have set up a ‘Hippy Republic’ here [S. José, Costa Rica]. 1969Times 27 Mar. 1/1 Without..losing her cool, as the hippy idiom would put it. 1969Daily Mail 26 Sept. 7/1 The estimated number of full-time Hippies in London is 2,000,..and more than 60,000 part-timers in Britain alone. 1969Times 5 Dec. 7/1 Religion, in one form or another, is frequently a straw to which the lost generation of hippies clings. Ibid., The members of the hippy commune charged with the Sharon Tate killings are no more typical of America's long-haired ‘make love, not war’ youth than the soldiers involved in the alleged My Lai massacre are typical of the United States Army. 1972New Society 30 Nov. 496/2 The word ‘hippy’ is now in current usage throughout Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, and often just refers to anyone with long hair, almost always a European. 1973Friend 13 July 839/1 ‘Hippie’ is rather a general term applied quite often to anyone young and unkempt in appearance, who is considered to have dropped out of ‘straight’ society, and who in general puts little premium on the values of contemporary society which he has rebelled against.
Hence ˈhippiedom, the condition or fact of being a hippie; the domain of hippies; ˈhippieland, the domain of hippies; ˈhippi(e)ness, the quality or characteristics of a hippie or hippies.
1967N.Y. Times 5 May 42 There are two philosophical trends in hippiedom. 1967Economist 15 July 217/2 Some of the music is attracting attention outside of hippieland. 1968Blues Unlimited Dec. 9, I guess California, and psychedelia, and hippieness have had the influence. 1969Listener 20 Feb. 250/1 One Step Away..is the most comprehensive documentary I have seen so far about West Coast hippiedom. 1969Times 5 Dec. 7/1 The west coast with its sunshine and sparkling surf, cut off by the desert on one side and the Pacific on the other, is the hot-house of America's hippiedom. 1970K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) iv. 41 A lot of girls disappear in hippie⁓land. 1971Guardian 17 June 9/4 A group like Exodus..with their veneer of Dutch hippiness. 1971Ibid. 9 Sept 9/3 Descriptions of hippiedom by well-meaning admirers. |