hippie
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hippie (plural hippies)
- (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- Synonym: beatnik
- (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) 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 pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
- Synonyms: treehugger, flower child
- (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
- Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- One who is hip.
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Adjective
[edit]hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)
- Of or pertaining to hippies.
- That dress looks very hippie.
- 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:
- 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.
- 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:
- And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.
- (colloquial, humorous) 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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[edit]Czech
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[edit]hippie m anim
Declension
[edit]Dutch
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[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: hip‧pie
Noun
[edit]hippie m or f (plural hippies)
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)
Adjective
[edit]hippie (plural hippies)
Further reading
[edit]- “hippie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hippie and hippy.
Noun
[edit]hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippier, definite plural hippiene)
References
[edit]- “hippie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English hippie and hippy.
Noun
[edit]hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippiar, definite plural hippiane)
References
[edit]- “hippie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)
- hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)
Spanish
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “hippie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
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Etymology
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[edit]hippie c
- a hippie
Declension
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hippie | hippien | hippies, hippier | hippierna |
Genitive | hippies | hippiens | hippies, hippiers | hippiernas |
Derived terms
[edit]- hippierörelsen (“the hippie movement”)
See also
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