hippie

noun

1. 1

   A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   slangA person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.

4. 4

   Someone who dresses in a hippie style.

5. 5

   archaicSomeone who is or tries to be hip.

   Near-synonyms: hipster, hepster, trendite; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person

adjective

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to hippies.

   That dress looks very hippie.

   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.

   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.

   And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.

2. 2

   Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

   They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

Forms

plural

hippies

comparative

hippier

superlative

hippiest