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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle [syn: hippie, hippy, hipster, flower child]

Merriam Webster's

or hippy noun (plural hippies) Etymology: ⁴hip + -ie Date: 1965 a usually young person who rejects the mores of established society (as by dressing unconventionally or favoring communal living) and advocates a nonviolent ethic; broadly a long-haired unconventionally dressed young person • hippiedom noun • hippieish adjective • hippieness or hippiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also hippy) (pl. -ies) colloq. 1 (esp. in the 1960s) a person of unconventional appearance, typically with long hair, jeans, beads, etc., often associated with hallucinogenic drugs and a rejection of conventional values. 2 = HIPSTER(2). Etymology: HIP(3)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also hippy(hippies) Hippies were young people in the 1960s and 1970s who rejected conventional ways of living, dressing, and behaving, and tried to live a life based on peace and love. Hippies often had long hair and many took drugs. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Bohemian, beat, beatnik, bohemian, breakaway, deviant, dissenter, dropout, far out, flower child, freak, free and easy, fringy, heretic, heretical, heterodox, informal, kinky, longhair, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, nonjuror, not cricket, not done, not kosher, offbeat, original, sectarian, sectary, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, unconventional, unfashionable, unorthodox, way out, yippie