Definition of hippie

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hippie
noun

(italbrac, originally in the 1960s; still widely used in reference to that era) 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 pacifist, pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
a. 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 b. Someone who dresses in a hippie style
One who is hip
(italbrac, in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the Beatniks

Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., "the hippie era".
(Colloquial) 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".

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