Noun: hippies hi-peez
- 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; favoured acid rock and progressive rock music
"hippies gathered in Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love";
- flower people [informal], hipsters
- Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
"The hippy embraced a free-spirited, countercultural lifestyle";
- hippie, hipster, flower child [informal]
Type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer, youth subculture
Encyclopedia: Hippies
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