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hippy
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hip·py  (hp)
n.
Variant of hippie.
hippy 1
Adjective
[-pier, -piest] Informal having large hips
hippy 2 or hippie
Noun
pl -pies (esp. during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour and dress imply a rejection of conventional values [from hip4]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hippyhippy - someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
flower child, hippie, 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
hippy or hippie
noun flower child, bohemian, dropout, free spirit, beatnik, basketweaver Austral. (derogatory), (slang)


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Who lurched from one ill-fitting "identity" to another every summer, going through hippiedom, grunge, gangsta lite, various roots-isms (Ebonics, Repatriation, Rastafarianism), Anglophilia, Americanization, afros, straightened, corn-rowed, shaved, baggy jeans, tight jeans, white girls, black girls, Jew girls, goy girls, conservatism, Conservatism, socialism, anarchism, partying, drugging, hermiting, schizing, rehabbing--how did he get from there to this?
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Indeed, romanticization of all kinds gets up his nose, be it the platitudes of feel-good psychology, hippiedom, Beuysian hocus-pocus, or the bloviating authors of Great Books.
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