Definition of hippie Hippie
/hɪˈpi/ - [hipee] - hip•pie
We found 10 definitions of hippie from 4 different sources.
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What does hippie mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: hippies |
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| hippie - someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle | ||
| hippy, hipster, flower child | ||
| meliorist, reformist, social reformer, crusader, reformer a warrior who engages in a holy war; "the Crusaders tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- hippie (Noun)
A teenager who imitated the beatniks. - hippie (Noun)
One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. - hippie (Noun)
Someone with unusually long hair. - hippie (Noun)
Someone who dresses in a hippie style. - hippie (Noun)
One who is hip. - hippie (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to hippies: e. g. , “the hippie era”. - hippie (Adjective)
Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e. g. , “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system , rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.
Wikipedia 
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A hippie (sometimes hippy) is a label for a person who feels attached to a certain counterculture that started in the United States and spread to other countries in the 1960s.
Hippies have their own views on drug use, sexual liberation, and women's rights.
History.
The first people to be called "hippies" in around 1965 were young adults and teenagers who grew out of the beatnik movement and supporters of civil rights for African-Americans in the Southern USA. They soon developed their own music scene in neighbourhoods in New York City (Greenwich Village) and San Francisco (Haight-Ashbury). They were also strongly against the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, and what they called the "Establishment" and the "military-industrial complex" (This phrase was taken from a warning in the farewell speech of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961).
Many more people began to see hippies in the news after the Human Be-In (January 1967) and the 1967 "Summer of Love" were held in San Francisco. By this time, they had developed their own lifestyle that included psychedelic styles, drug use, usually some amount of travel, and far longer hair than people had been used to seeing. These styles quickly spread across the country, especially to college campuses where students were loudly protesting President Lyndon Johnson's policies in Vietnam, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, and other events. They also spread to the UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zeala
Part of speech
🔤- hippie, noun, singular of hippies.
