# hippie
## English
### Alternative forms

* hippy

### Etymology

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: hĭp'i, IPA: /ˈhɪpi/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪpi

### Noun

hippie (plural hippies)
* (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
    Synonym: beatnik
* (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
    Synonyms: treehugger, flower child
* (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
* Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
* One who is hip.

#### Derived terms

* hippie chimp
* hippie clinic
* hippie-dippie
* hippiedom
* hippieism
* hippie punching
* hippie trail

#### Related terms

* hip
* hipster

#### Translations
### Adjective

hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)
* Of or pertaining to hippies.
    That dress looks very hippie.
** 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.
** 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.
** 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.
* (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
    They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

#### Related terms

* hep
* hip

### See also

* feral

### Further reading

* hippie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Epiphi

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

### Noun

hippie m anim
* hippie

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: hip‧pie

### Noun

hippie m or f (plural hippies)
* hippie

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

### Noun

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)
* hippie

### Adjective

hippie (plural hippies)
* hippie

### Further reading

* “hippie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English hippie and hippy.

### Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippier, definite plural hippiene)
* a hippie or hippy

### References

* “hippie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English hippie and hippy.

### Noun

hippie m (definite singular hippien, indefinite plural hippiar, definite plural hippiane)
* a hippie or hippy

### References

* “hippie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁi.pi/ [ˈhi.pi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁi.pi/ [ˈhi.pi]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁi.pi/ [ˈχi.pi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁi.pe/ [ˈhi.pe]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈi.pi/

### Noun

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)
* hippie (member of a nonconformist subculture of the 1960s)

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* jipi

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hippie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxipi/ [ˈxi.pi]
* Rhymes: -ipi

### Noun

hippie m or f by sense (plural hippies)
* hippie

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “hippie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hippie.

### Noun

hippie c
* a hippie

#### Derived terms

* hippierörelsen (“the hippie movement”)

#### See also

* progg

### References

* hippie in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* hippie in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)