hippie
/'hipi/ Cách viết khác : (hippy) /'hipi/
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Definition
Noun: 1. A person, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, who rejects established social norms and values, often advocating for peace, love, and personal freedom, and typically associated with a distinctive style of dress, music, and communal living.
Usage
The term "hippie" is used to describe a member of a specific countercultural movement. It functions as a countable noun. * The hippie advocated for peace and environmentalism. * She dressed like a hippie, with flowers in her hair and colorful clothes. * Many hippies in the 1960s experimented with alternative lifestyles.
Advanced Usage
- "to go hippie": to adopt the style, attitudes, or lifestyle associated with hippies.
- After college, he decided to go hippie and travel across the country in a van.
- Used attributively (as a noun modifier) to describe things related to the hippie culture.
- They listened to hippie music. She decorated her room in a hippie style.
Variants and Related Words
- Hippy: An alternative, less common spelling of "hippie."
- Hippiedom (n): The world or community of hippies; the state of being a hippie.
- Hippieish / Hippyish (adj): Resembling or characteristic of a hippie.
Synonyms
- Bohemian: A person, often involved in the arts, who lives in an unconventional manner.
- Nonconformist: A person who does not conform to prevailing ideas or practices.
- Freethinker: A person who forms their own ideas and opinions independently of authority.
Related Phrases
- Flower child: A synonym for hippie, emphasizing ideals of peace and love.
- The flower children gathered at the festival.
- Turn on, tune in, drop out: A phrase popularized by Timothy Leary, often associated with the hippie ethos of embracing consciousness change and disengaging from conventional society.
Noun
- someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle