| 释义 |
yippie, Yippie orig. U.S.|ˈjɪpɪ|
Also yippy.
[f. the initials of Youth International Party + -ie, influenced by hippie, hippy n. and a.]
A member of a group of politically active hippies, orig. in the United States.
1968Time 5 Apr. 55/1 The Yippies—1968's version of the hippies... The term Yippie comes from Youth International Party. 1968Listener 3 Oct. 428/2 One student outlines his own theories to me. ‘This whole scene began with Dylan, the Beatles, and of course pot.’ Another complains that the militants need a sense of humour and hopes the Yippies move in with their ‘politics of ecstasy’. 1968Time 11 Oct. 28 Pierson had infiltrated a yippie group known as the Headhunters, and soon rose to the dizzying position of personal bodyguard to the yippie leader. 1971Bulletin (Sydney) 19 June 15/3 The news that Sydney's Yippies (‘Yippie is a fun Revolution’) were preparing to play an energetic part in the strenuously humorless Vietnam Moratorium came as a surprise. 1976Times 18 Aug. 4/7 If we're going to save democracy, we've got to put an end to all this yippy filth, these abortions, [etc.]. 1981J. Dunning Deadline (1982) xiv. 138 Bill Neal was one of those yippie types... One of those bearded nonconformists. |