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flower child

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flower child
n. Informal
A hippie, especially one advocating universal peace and love as antidotes to social or political ills.
[From the custom of carrying or wearing flowers to symbolize peace and love.]
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Noun1.flower childflower child - someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
hippie, hippy, hipster
flower people, hippies, hipsters - 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
crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform


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Thirty years later, the flower child turned flower farmer is still out front pushing for agrarian reform, but now he is doing it from his seat in Congress.
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