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• hippy

語源

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.

発音

• enPR: hĭp'i, IPA: /ˈhɪpi/
• 韻: -ɪpi

名詞

hippie (plural hippies)

1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.

   Synonym: beatnik

2. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.

   Synonyms: tree hugger, flower child

3. (modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

派生語

関連する語

• hip
• hipster

形容詞

hippie (comparative hippier, superlative hippiest)

1. Of or pertaining to hippies.

   That dress looks very hippie.

   • 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s, →ISBN:

     The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape.

   • 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, →ISBN, page 126:

     You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead.

   • 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict, →ISBN:

     And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that.

2. (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.

   They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.

関連する語

• hep
• hip

参考

• feral

Further reading

• hippie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Epiphi