[ noun ] someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle <noun.person>
hippie \hip"pie\ n. Someone who rejects the established culture, dresses casually, and advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle. Used especially of those in the late 1960's, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, who conspicuously rejected traditional culture by dressing casually, if male wore their hair long, and wore folksy or used clothing adorned with beads, headbands, and often flowers; they emphasized the importance of love and direct personal relations rather than success-oriented businesslike behavior, strove for spontaneity, sometimes lived communally, and in some cases tried to expand their consciousness by various psychological techniques such as meditation, or through the use of consciousness-altering drugs such as marijuana or LSD. By the end of the Vietnam war in the 1970's, the numbers of people living a visibly hippie lifestyle had dramatically decreased, though some people continue to develop similar views and live with the same outlook.
Syn: hippy, flower child. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
She looked like a leftover hippie from the '60s," the Daily News reported.
For spring-summer 1990, Moschino also flirt with the new hippie trend in a series of multicolored gypsy skirts, jeans outfits and Mexican-style long vests, but the bulk of his collection was based on an evening look of basic black and gold.
There are still prophets of the hippie culture sprinkled in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the quarter-century-old values of that communal counterculture have emerged from quake rubble.
And even though he thought of himself as a hippie, he still had the stirrings of ambition instilled by careerist parents; his mother handled the Revlon account at Grey Advertising Inc. long before female yuppies donned suits and tennis shoes.
Necklaces are either very long and 'hippie' or old-fashioned chokers. And finally, wave goodbye to your power earrings.
He was obviously the first black hippie anybody had ever seen so he really made quite an impact." With the help of a friendly jazz critic, Was (Not Was) managed to get signed to Ze Records, an independent label, in 1980.
After that I did episodes of `Hotel' and `Simon & Simon' and then some movies." She made her movie debut as a teen-age hippie in "Breezy" in 1973, which starred William Holden and was directed by Clint Eastwood.