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hippy
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hip·py  (hp)
n.
Variant of hippie.

hippy1, hippie [ˈhɪpɪ]
n pl -pies
a.  (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc., implied a rejection of conventional values
b.  (as modifier) hippy language
[see hip4]

hippy2
adj -pier, -piest
Informal (esp of a woman) having large hips
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hippy - someone who rejects the established culturehippy - someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
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 hippie
noun flower child, bohemian, dropout, free spirit, beatnik Being a hippie was about `finding yourself'.
Translations
hippy [ˈhɪpɪ]
A. Nhippy mf, hippie mf
B. ADJhippy, hippie
hippy [ˈhɪpi] n = hippie
hip replacement nprothèse f de la hanche
to have a hip replacement
She's had a hip replacement → On lui a posé une prothèse de la hanche.
hip size ntour m de hanches
hippy, hippie
nHippie m


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20) The dual nature of the city's drug culture encompasses the trendiness and hippiness of marijuana alongside the devastations of HIV in the downtown eastside--a range that corresponds to the recreational drug use of A Girl is a Girl and Dirty (1998) as well as the ravaging effects of addiction in We All Fall Down and Protection (2000).
A clever cover that loses the original's hippiness without losing its dreamy delight.
Starting with a normal beat, Richman is soon falling over himself with the gross hippiness of the place; he sings as if he still can't believe he was ever there.
 
 
 
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