Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
hippie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
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Examples
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Granted many of us were in that fight as well but the term hippies is so way past the time frame.
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Granted many of us were in that fight as well but the term hippies is so way past the time frame.
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He says when he looks out into the crowd when he sings and sees what he describes as hippies and Rastafarians, he sees a bit of himself.
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He says when he looks into the crowd when he sings and sees what he describes as hippies and Rastafarians he sees a bit of himself.
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Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 38 weeks 2 days ago theirs. i think we should keep our woods clean and large and ive sauid that but they are ignorant and stubbburn about hunbting so to me their just treehuggin hippies
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Yes | No | Report from peter wrote 38 weeks 2 days ago theirs. i think we should keep our woods clean and large and ive sauid that but they are ignorant and stubbburn about hunbting so to me their just treehuggin hippies
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But punching the hippies is easier than admitting that your latest hero has been wrong-headed and inadequate, I suppose.
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Not that it actually will happen first; terror of inner city blacks and hippies is still too strong.
Friedman Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The highly politicized environment that shaped them was characterized by "hippies, the Vietnam war, revolution, Nixon, Watergate, books that called for change in every way," Mr. Samaras said in a Journal interview.
Frenemies: Two Greek Rivals Hold Nation's Fate in Balance Marcus Walker 2011
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More disturbing than the smelly, unwashed, scrounging, hippies is ….
Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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