hippy








adjective, hip·pi·er, hip·pi·est.

  1. having big hips.

noun, plural hip·pies.

  1. hippie.

noun

  1. a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc.

noun plural -pies

    1. (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc, implied a rejection of conventional values
    2. (as modifier)hippy language

adjective -pier or -piest

  1. informal (esp of a woman) having large hips

noun

  1. a variant spelling of hippy 1
adj.

“having prominent hips,” 1919, from hip (n.1) + -y (2).

n.

c.1965, American English (Haight-Ashbury slang); earlier hippie, 1953, was a usually disparaging variant of hipster (1941) “person who is keenly aware of the new and stylish,” from hip “up-to-date” (see hip (adj.)).

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