Hippie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hippie \hip"pie\ n.
     Someone who rejects the established culture, dresses
     casually, and advocates extreme liberalism in politics and
     lifestyle. Used especially of those in the late 1960's,
     mostly in their late teens and early twenties, who
     conspicuously rejected traditional culture by dressing


     casually, if male wore their hair long, and wore folksy or
     used clothing adorned with beads, headbands, and often
     flowers; they emphasized the importance of love and direct
     personal relations rather than success-oriented businesslike
     behavior, strove for spontaneity, sometimes lived communally,
     and in some cases tried to expand their consciousness by
     various psychological techniques such as meditation, or
     through the use of consciousness-altering drugs such as
     marijuana or LSD. By the end of the Vietnam war in the
     1970's, the numbers of people living a visibly hippie
     lifestyle had dramatically decreased, though some people
     continue to develop similar views and live with the same
     outlook.
  
     Syn: hippy, flower child.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hippie
       n : someone who rejects the established culture; advocates
           extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle [syn: {hippy},
            {hipster}, {flower child}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "hippie":
     Bohemian, beat, beatnik, bohemian, breakaway, deviant, dissenter,
     dropout, far out, flower child, freak, free and easy, fringy,
     heretic, heretical, heterodox, informal, kinky, longhair, maverick,
     misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, not cricket, not done, not kosher,
     offbeat, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling,
     unconformist, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, way out,
     yippie