hippie

hippie

Someone who eschews societal norms in favor of countercultural beliefs, particularly those that were prevalent in the US in the 1960s, such as pacifism and free sexual expression. Of course I went to Woodstock—I was a hippie, back in the day. What's up with the tie-dye shirt? With your long hair, it makes you look like a hippie.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hippy

and hippie (ˈhɪpi)
n. a long-haired, drug-using youth of the 1960s and 1970s. That guy looks like a hippy left over from the sixties.

hippie

verb
See hippy
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hippy
  • march to (the beat of) a different tune
  • march to a different tune
  • go to the stake
  • march to a different beat
  • march
  • march to (one's) own beat
  • march to (the beat of) (one's) own drum
  • march to (the beat of) a different drum
  • march to a different drummer
References in periodicals archive
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Her first task is to tackle the question of hippie women's subordination: did the counterculture forge an alternative set of gender norms or did it reproduce the patriarchal hierarchies of power of the dominant society?
As the hippie subculture faded in the early '70s, Brand began to shift the standard countercultural view of computers.
The section for "hippies"--the middle-class draft dodgers and drug offenders--was around the handball courts.
Folks, don't look now but Eugene has been doing the hippie thing for nearly a half-century.
Peter Ovig Knudsen, a veteran journalist and documentarian, has been trying for more than a year to get Apple to sell digital versions of his popular books "Hippie 1" and "Hippie 2." The books are a two-part retrospective chronicling Denmark's counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The 26-year-old star had sought default judgment and a permanent injunction against Warren Richardson, who snapped her while filming Hippie Hippie Shake, a movie about Oz editor Richard Neville, on a private estate in Surrey.
The actress was caught on camera on the set of comedy Hippie Hippie Shake, which is due to be releaed next year.
Her new film Hippie Hippie Shake is set in the 60s and Sienna, 25, is picture perfect in a flowing dress as she filmed these scenes.
Volunteers run the gamut from hippie dropouts to middle-class students on spring break, and the outposts they've built are filled with things you'd never expect to see anywhere near a relief effort: free acupuncture, vegetarian cooking, cross-dressing volunteers, a giant geodesic dome.
The characters do not embody redeemed images of the past but rather represent scraps of myth that continue to be visited upon civilization as our "common heritage." But Costume Party also introduces some of history's marginal figures to upset the period archetypes: a park flasher, a leather fetishist, and an aging hippie chick scramble signification vaudeville-style.