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Definition of Hippies
1. Noun. 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; favored acid rock and progressive rock music.
Generic synonyms: Youth Subculture
Member holonyms: Flower Child, Hippie, Hippy, Hipster
Definition of Hippies
1. Noun. (plural of hippie) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hippies
1. hippie [n] - See also: hippie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippies
Literary usage of Hippies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients, Explain'd from History by Banier (Antoine) (1739)
"... they gave him the additional Epithet of hippies, as for the fame ... it was
given to Nep- /*«, who had the Denomination of hippies ..."
2. The Rural Economy of Yorkshire: Comprizing the Management of Landed Estates by Marshall (William), Marshall (1788)
"... hippies ;"—made in different ways -, fome being let up hollow with the foot
and the head of the rake; others in the common way with forks. ..."
3. Herodotus by Herodotus (1831)
"Plutarch, in isis tract on our fate, and must prepare for the tyranny of the
Malignity of Herodotus, speaks thus of this passage: hippies ..."
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