hippy

[US]/'hɪpɪ/
[UK]/'hɪpi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. A young person who pursues peace, freedom, and a natural way of life, often characterized by unconventional dress and behavior.

Example Sentences

the two unassuming hippies took on a corporate Goliath.

his home was transmogrified into a hippy crash pad.

In 1967 she hit the hippy trail to India.

hippies finally quit two sites in Hampshire last night.

In his youth he had been sucked into a hippy cult.

Their thirst for reinvention saw the elegantly quiffed Hamburg rockers become the mop-topped fab four, hippy harbingers of sexual liberation and, eventually, druggy psychedelic visionaries.

If you can mesmerize, Dr Judah’s admitted.If you can mesmerize the drug addicted hippies and engage them in understanding Krishna, it is a great achievement.

Real-world Examples

They were not going to trust their investment to a hippy like Steve Jobs.

Source: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

He was a hybrid, one part geek and one part hippy. It was the 60s.

Source: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

By swimming for a kilometre, with a naked hippy transporting our stuff in an overloaded kayak.

Source: Oxford University: IELTS Foreign Teacher Course

Some moccasins but it's also nod to what was going on during that time, the hippy rebellion.

Source: VOA Standard English Entertainment

It was kind of a hippy place, with everyone walking around naked and doing whatever they felt like.

Source: Oxford University: IELTS Foreign Teacher Course

Sounds like some hippy (bleep) to me.

Source: MBTI Personality Types Guide

Think yoga is for hippy nerds?

Source: Defeating the movie moguls

God, I feel like surgery hippy creep.

Source: Desperate Housewives Video Edition Season 6

I’m not a hippy; I do not have flowers in my hair.

Source: Complete English Speech Collection

The first hippy communes spring up in the Haight-Ashbury district of the city.

Source: History

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