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hippie

See also: Hippie

English

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Hippies (nonconformists) in Tallinn, 1989
 
(modern slang) hippie women

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Etymology

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From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.

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Noun

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hippie (plural hippies)

  1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
    Synonym: beatnik
  2. (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
  3. (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.
  4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  5. One who is hip.

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Adjective

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hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

  1. 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.
  2. (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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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hippie.

Noun

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hippie m anim

  1. hippie

Declension

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Declension of hippie (masculine animate in -ie)
singular plural
nominative hippie hippiové, hippies
genitive hippieho hippiů, hippies
dative hippiemu hippiům, hippies
accusative hippieho hippie, hippies
vocative hippie hippiové, hippies
locative hippiem hippiích, hippies
instrumental hippiem hippii, hippies

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hippie.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: hip‧pie

Noun

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hippie m or f (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English hippie.

Noun

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hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

Adjective

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hippie (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From English hippie and hippy.

Noun

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hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippier, definite plural hippiene)

  1. a hippie or hippy

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From English hippie and hippy.

Noun

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hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippiar, definite plural hippiane)

  1. a hippie or hippy

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: hip‧pie

Noun

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hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

  1. hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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  1. jipi

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

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Noun

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hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)

  1. hippie

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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.

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Swedish

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en gitarrspelande hippie

Etymology

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Borrowed from English hippie.

Noun

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hippie c

  1. a hippie

Declension

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Declension of hippie 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hippie hippien hippies, hippier hippierna
Genitive hippies hippiens hippies, hippiers hippiernas

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