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ˈhɪpi (especially in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs. hippies and spiritual seekers made their way to India in the sixties in search of enlightenment she joined a band of hippies in the West Country and helped to set up the Glastonbury festival Synonyms flower child, bohemian, dropout, free spirit, nonconformist, unconventional person (hippies), flower people
adjective ˈhɪpi Relating to hippies or the subculture associated with them. the birthplace of the hippy movement
Derivatives noun ˈhɪpɪdəmˈhɪpidəm mass nounThe condition of being a hippy; hippy fashion or behaviour. the height of hippiedom in the '60s Example sentencesExamples - scenes of San Francisco hippiedom
- In hippiedom there was an ‘anything goes’ type of mentality.
- Love's life bridges the worlds of punk rock and Hollywood glamour, high fashion and San Francisco hippiedom.
- Loitering is one of the pleasures of San Francisco, especially in North Beach and in Haight-Ashbury, the hub of hippiedom in the Sixties.
noun Somehow these pop culture references seem ill at odds with the essential hippiness of Beattie's characters. Example sentencesExamples - A lot of companies don't want to be associated with the whimsical hippiness that seems to go with it.
- Urban Outfitters maintains a costly network of young trend-spotters to keep the hippiness up-to-date.
adjective If blowing fruit-scented smoke rings is faintly hippyish, taking a trip through the Wadi Rum desert is full-blown bohemianism. Example sentencesExamples - This group included a hippyish contingent, joined in a soothing hum.
- It's embarrassing how many pathetic people from my UCD English class were sitting around at Marlay Park being vile and hippyish.
Rhymes chippy, clippie, dippy, drippy, grippy, Lippi, lippy, Mississippi, nippy, slippy, snippy, tippy, trippy, whippy, Xanthippe, zippy adjective ˈhɪpi (of a woman) having large hips. she looked very hippy in her jeans Example sentencesExamples - I found the fitted top with those jeans made her look too hippy and pear-shaped.
- He couldn't figure how sensibly clothed, satirical, sarcastic, sassy Jo had come from this hippy woman standing in front of him.
Definition of hippy in US English: hippyadjectiveˈhipēˈhɪpi (of a woman) having large hips. she looked very hippy in her jeans Example sentencesExamples - I found the fitted top with those jeans made her look too hippy and pear-shaped.
- He couldn't figure how sensibly clothed, satirical, sarcastic, sassy Jo had come from this hippy woman standing in front of him.
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