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hippie

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Sociology, Drug culture
hip·pie, hippy /ˈhɪpi/ noun [countable]  SSMDDsomeone, especially in the 1960s, who opposed violence peacefully and often wore unusual clothes, had long hair, and took drugs for pleasure 嬉皮士
Examples from the Corpus
hippieIt says the Oxfam concert was even listed in a hippie newsletter of forthcoming events which was circulated at Castlemorton.She straddled the two subcultures of beat and hippie.Alice was, to his way of thinking, a fat, discarded hippie, dragged down by two monstrous happy-face earrings.Tudor was, however, no hippie.The fruit tree man is an old hippie.Boy, just let one hippie show up in Samoa. just let one show up.Like a sixties' hippie, Preston thought irreverently, half way to getting stoned.Caught up in these movements was the hippie culture of the period, with its involvement with hallucinogenic drugs.
Origin hippie (1900-2000) → HIP2
hip·pie nounChineseSyllable
the Corpus especially who violence 1960s, opposed in someone, peacefully


hippie
hippie , hippy /ˈhɪpi/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1900-2000
 Origin: HIP2
someone, especially in the 1960s, who opposed violence peacefully and often wore unusual clothes, had long hair, and took drugs for pleasure


hip·pie (also hippy) BrE /ˈhɪpi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhɪpi/ 🔊 noun (
plural
hip·pies
)
a person who rejects the way that most people live in Western society, often having long hair, wearing brightly coloured clothes and taking illegal drugs. The hippie movement was most popular in the 1960s. 嬉皮士(拒绝西方主流生活方式的人,常留长发、衣着鲜艳、吸毒。嬉皮士运动在 20 世纪 60 年代最盛行)