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US
/ˈhɪpiz/
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[ UK /hˈɪpɪz/ ]
[ UK /hˈɪpɪz/ ]
NOUN
- a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
How To Use hippies In A Sentence
- Californian hippies in suits intone the inane and never-challenged mantra that information wants to be free.
- The flames still lifted from the hippies "log fire, but they were asleep in their shanties and lean-to huts. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- Believing that music should be free, man, a groundswell of penny-pinching hippies forced the promoter to provide free concerts as a sidebar to the festival.
- Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
- The hippies ripped off the grocery store.
- Some of the results sound as though they come from hippies rather than academics. Times, Sunday Times
- That does seem to be the important push these days - convincing people that sustainable food, clothing, practices etc. are more mainstream than the traditional image of unwashed hippies eating lentils while wearing hemp in their off-the-grid log cabin - or the more modern but still unappealing yuppie couple who ride bicycles everywhere, use cloth diapers and recycle their dishwater, and eat tofurky. Stylish and sustainable
- Western models were often followed; mods and rockers, skinheads, punks, and hippies all found their Soviet imitators.
- As it was the late 80's, Goa was still very uncommercialised and the haunt of hippies and dodgy drug dealers, who we met on several occasions plying their trade. Army Rumour Service
- He could have been right at that, when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom.