Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hippie trail

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables: hip-pie -trail
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.

Example Sentences

"Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie"
"The original Hippie Trail grew out of the 1960s the same way just about everything else did at the time: with a search for spiritual enlightenment, or at any rate, drug-induced enlightenment, or at any rate, drugs."
"Following the example of Talitha—“the daring one”—Paul junior [Getty] had started experimenting with increasingly perilous drugs, and together they floated off on the hippie trail around the East."

Inflected Forms

hippie trails (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

overland

Questions

What does hippie trail mean?: The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.

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