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hip·py

 (hĭp′ē)
n.
Variant of hippie.
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hippy

(ˈhɪpɪ) or

hippie

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.
[C20: see hip4]

hippy

(ˈhɪpɪ)
adj, -pier or -piest
informal (esp of a woman) having large hips
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hip•py1

(ˈhɪp i)

adj. -pi•er, -pi•est.
having big hips.
[1890–95]

hip•py2

(ˈhɪp i)

n., pl. -pies.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
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
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hippy

hippie
noun flower child, bohemian, dropout, free spirit, beatnik Being a hippie was about `finding yourself'.
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Translations
hipijshipiju-
hippiehippiovský

hippy

[ˈhɪpɪ]
A. Nhippy mf, hippie mf
B. ADJhippy, hippie
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hippy

[ˈhɪpi] n = hippiehip 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
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hippy

, hippie
nHippie m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hippie,

hippy

(ˈhipi) plural ˈhippies noun, adjective
(of) a usually young person who does not wish to live by the normal rules of society and who shows his rejection of these rules by his unusual clothes, habits etc. The farm cottage was bought by a group of young hippies; (also adjective) hippy clothes.
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