单词 | zippie |
释义 | Zippien.1 U.S. Now chiefly historical. A member of a radical countercultural activist group; spec. a member of a short-lived breakaway group of Youth International Party members, or Yippies (see Yippie n.), which demonstrated at the Republican and Democratic conventions in Miami Beach in 1972. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > person interested in politics > political activist minuteman1794 activist1920 Yippie1968 Zippie1968 struggle royalty2003 1968 Beckley (W. Va.) Post-Herald 23 Sept. 4/7 He [sc. Hubert Humphrey] was cool toward the untidy hippies and Yippies and zippies, from whom he drew some of his strength. 1971 Berkeley Tribe Dec. 15 Zippies are ‘urging you to lend your talents to the design of a utopian cultural spasm to coincide with the conspired collapse of the Political Processing in Miami and San Diego in the summer of '72’. 1994 Independent on Sunday 24 July (Review Suppl.) 12/4 At Sungod kitchen I meet Shiloh, an original Zippy from the Seventies, whose nose is punched with two silver rings and whose hair is shaved along the left side of his scalp. 2009 M. Roselle & J. Mahan Tree Spiker ii. 27 The Zippies hated Hoffman and Jerry Rubin with a vengeance that revolutionaries reserve only for each other. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). zippien.2 Originally and chiefly British. A member of a cultural group associated with the British rave and festival scene of the late 1980s and 1990s, characterized by an enthusiasm for technology and an interest in ecological issues and unorthodox spiritual and metaphysical ideas. Cf. techno-hippie n., techno-pagan n. ΚΠ 1986 Encycl. Psychedelica 1 25/1 Zippies (90s Hippies) suggest that the key concept, which can instantly resolve the seeming complexity to much more manageable proportion, lies in the general polarities within each human psyche between 60s Hippy and Technoperson. 1990 Sunday Times 7 Oct. v. 5/5 The Mandelbrot Set, as any Zippie could tell you, is a computer-generated pattern derived from chaos science. 1994 Independent on Sunday 24 July (Review Suppl.) 11/4 With the launch of Clark's Megatripopolis club at London's Heaven last October, complete with laser shows, virtual reality booths and psychedelic trance music, the zippies came fully into being. 2014 N.Y. Times 19 Oct. (Late ed.) 76/1 Then there were ‘the zippies’, a techno-hippie subculture that made the cover of Wired in 1994. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11968n.21986 |
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