Hippie

Noun

 * 1)  A teenager who imitated the beatniks
 * 2)  One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes 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.
 * 3) Someone with long hair: specifically, of a hair length that is considered unconventionally long in relation to one’s gender, age, ethnicity, or land of origin.
 * 4) Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
 * 5) One who is hip.

Synonyms

 * beatnik
 * treehugger

Derived terms

 * hippiedom

Related terms

 * hip
 * hipster

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
 * 2)  Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.

Synonyms

 * beatnik

Related terms

 * hep
 * hip

Thesaurus
Bohemian, beat, beatnik, bohemian, breakaway, deviant, dissenter, dropout, far out, flower child, freak, free and easy, fringy, heretic, heretical, heterodox, informal, kinky, longhair, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, way out, yippie