HIPPIE
NOUNS – PERSON
► BEADED LADY a homosexual hippy → 1972 homosexual sl. (Bk.)
► BEARD a bearded man; a bearded beatnik, hippie, or avant-garde intellectual; usually used derisively → 1927 Amer. sl.
► BEARDED LADY a homosexual hippy → 1972 homosexual sl. (Bk.)
► BEARDNIK a bearded beatnik, hippie, or avant-garde intellectual; usually used derisively → 1967 Amer. sl.
► BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, THE hippies, regarded collectively → 1967 hist.
► BUNGI ► BUNGIE ► BUNGY a ‘drop-out’, a hippie → 1980s S. Afr.
► CRUNCHY someone who identifies with the styles and concerns of the 1960s; a hippie → 1980s US students’a sl.
► DEADHEAD a young person, preaching a philosophy of ‘love and peace’, backed by a wide spectrum of drug usage, esp. of cannabis and hallucinogens; a hippie, esp. a devotee of a ‘back to nature’ lifestyle → 1980s sl.
► EARTHY CRUNCHY someone who identifies with the styles and concerns of the 1960s; a hippie → 1980s US students’ sl.
► GIMPY a member of the counterculture; a hippie → 1998 UK sl.
► GOOSE a hippy; one who rejects conventions of dress and aspirations → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► HAIRY CRUNCHY someone who identifies with the styles and concerns of the 1960s; a hippie → 1980s US students’ sl.
► HAIRY-LEGS AND FLOPPY-TITS BRIGADE women leading alternative lifestyles; hippie types → 1988 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► HEAD a hippie or a person who drops out of mainstream society because of drug use → 1960s Amer. sl.
► HIP a person who is hip, in fashion, or up-to-date’; spec. a hippie → 1967 US journalistic sl.
► HIPIDITY a usually young person, preaching a philosophy of ‘love and peace’, backed by a wide spectrum of drug use, esp. cannabis and hallucinogens; a hippie → 1975 US students’ sl.
► HIPPIE CHICK ► HIPPY CHICK a female hippie; a woman or girl who dresses in a style reminiscent of a hippie → 1967
► HIPPIE ► HIPPY 1. a person who is hip or aware and well-informed; one who is in the know, esp. about jazz music and culture; a hipster → 1948 sl., orig. US
2. a member of a countercultural movement which began in the late 1960s, characterized by pacifism, rejection of conservative values, and a nonconformist appearance (typically with long hair, jeans, beads, etc.), and often associated with the taking of hallucinogenic drugs; generally, any person who adopts a similarly unconventional style of dress, or embraces alternative ideals and beliefs and a nonconformist way of life → 1966
► HIPPIEHEAD a member of a countercultural movement which began in the late 1960s, characterized by pacifism, rejection of conservative values, and a nonconformist appearance (typically with long hair, jeans, beads, etc.), and often associated with the taking of hallucinogenic drugs; generally, any person who adopts a similarly unconventional style of dress, or embraces alternative ideals and beliefs and a nonconformist way of life → 1968 US sl.
► HIPPY-DIPPY a hippie → 1969 US sl., derogatory
► HIPSIDOODLE a hippie, or someone who resembles one → 1990 US sl.
► MODOCKER a hippie → 1971 Boonville California jargon (Bk.)
► MOON CHILD a hippie → 1985 colloq.
► NUT ‘N’ BERRY a latter-day hippie → 1996 US students’ sl.
► OPHELIA a homosexual hippy; a flower child → 1972 homosexual sl. (Bk.)
► PAISLEY PUSSY a young hippy → 1972 homosexual sl. (Bk.)
► POT PIE a young hippy → 1972 homosexual sl. (Bk.)
► WOOK a quintessential rural hippie → 2004 US sl.
► XIPPIE a modern young person who wishes to adopt the lifestyle of the hippies of the 1960s → 1990s sl.
► YIPPIE a hippie who is a member of the Youth International Party, a loosely organized radical political group active in the late 1960s, esp. at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968 → 1968 orig. US
► ZIPPY someone whose lifestyle mixes hippy ideals and modern technology → 1990s UK sl.