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In some senses, hippie is marked as derogatory, slang, colloquial, humorous. Watch for register when choosing this word.
hippie
/ˈhɪpi/
noun 5adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
crisp, penniless, south, turned
VERB + HIPPIE
aging, called, dress, lives, looks, wasn't
HIPPIE + NOUN
commune, food, it's, nightclub, punk, writers, years
PREP.
about, in, than, with
Definitions
noun
1
A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
2
One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong
3
A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
4
Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5
One who is hip.
adj
1
Of or pertaining to hippies.
That dress looks very hippie.
The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.
2
Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
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Idioms & Phrases
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That dress looks very hippie.
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The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.
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You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.
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I've heard that he turned a hippie, because he chewed some mushroom and discovered a new colourful world.
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Tom just called Mary a hippie.
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Tom is a hippie.
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