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HIPPY (hippier, hippiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: hippier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, hippiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hippy mean? 

HIPPY (noun)
  The noun HIPPY has 1 sense:

1. someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyleplay

  Familiarity information: HIPPY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIPPY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

flower child; hippie; hippy; hipster

Hypernyms ("hippy" is a kind of...):

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

Holonyms ("hippy" is a member of...):

flower people; hippies; hipsters (a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music)


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