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HIPPIES

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• HIPPIES (noun)
The noun HIPPIES has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: HIPPIES used as a noun is very rare.

• HIPPIES (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

flower people; hippies; hipsters

Hypernyms ("hippies" is a kind of...):

youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)

Meronyms (members of "hippies"):

flower child; hippie; hippy; hipster (someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle)

"It ain't over till it's over."
(English proverb)
"The snake moves, erasing its tracks with its tail."
(Albanian proverb)
"Older than you by a day, more knowledgeable than you by a year."
(Arabic proverb)
"The one you love you punish."
(Danish proverb)

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