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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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Dressed in flowing emerald and black, and wearing her trademark bowler hat, there was something quite hippyish to her appearance.
The good cheer among the mucky revellers made for a great atmosphere and they were egged on further by fine sets from The Gossip and Goldfrapp, although the latter's hippyish new songs are not a patch on electro classics such as Strict Machine.
Clothes were warm, old, hippyish and ones you didn't mind getting wrecked.
 
 
 
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