hippy1
/ˈhɪpi
/(also hippie)
noun (plural hippies)
(Especially in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair and wearing beads, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs.He was on the expressway for hours and no one would stop since he looked like a hippie with long hair and a beard....
- It wasn't all dirty long-haired hippies with flowers in their hair.
- Her parents were intellectual hippies who moved in drug circles and her godfather was LSD guru Dr Timothy Leary.
Synonyms
flower child, bohemian, dropout, free spirit, nonconformist, unconventional person;
(hippies) flower people
adjective
Relating to hippies or the subculture associated with them: hippy philosophy...
- Unlike many, Bunyan didn't end up disavowing the hippie philosophy.
- It has been regarded as something of a ‘cult’ car being that during the flowery 1960s, it had become associated with the hippie movement.
- Once associated only with westerns and hippie festivals, the poncho is enjoying a revival as this season's must-have accessory.
Derivatives
hippiedom
- Love's life bridges the worlds of punk rock and Hollywood glamour, high fashion and San Francisco hippiedom.
- In hippiedom there was an ‘anything goes’ type of mentality.
- Loitering is one of the pleasures of San Francisco, especially in North Beach and in Haight-Ashbury, the hub of hippiedom in the Sixties.
hippiness
- 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.
- Somehow these pop culture references seem ill at odds with the essential hippiness of Beattie's characters.
hippyish
- It's embarrassing how many pathetic people from my UCD English class were sitting around at Marlay Park being vile and hippyish.
- If blowing fruit-scented smoke rings is faintly hippyish, taking a trip through the Wadi Rum desert is full-blown bohemianism.
- This group included a hippyish contingent, joined in a soothing hum.
Origin
1950s: from hip3 + -y1.
Rhymes
hippy2
/ˈhɪpi/adjective
(Of a woman) having large hips: she looked very hippy in her jeans...
- He couldn't figure how sensibly clothed, satirical, sarcastic, sassy Jo had come from this hippy woman standing in front of him.
- I found the fitted top with those jeans made her look too hippy and pear-shaped.
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- give
- give a dog a bad name and hang him
- give a fuck
- give a good (or bad) account of oneself
- give a man enough rope (or plenty of rope) and he will hang himself
- give and take
- give as good as one gets
- giveaway
- giveback
- give birth
- give blood
- give chase
- give evidence
- give in
- give it a rest
- give it laldy
- give it one's best shot
- give it to someone
- give it up
- give me a break
- give me strength!
- give me ——
- give mouth
- given