hippie
/ˈhɪpi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.36 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Derogatory
noun
A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
Derogatory; Slang
adj
Of or pertaining to hippies.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: hipster, hepster, trendite; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person"
- "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."
- "They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP."