Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. (in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
2. (in the 1960s; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
3. (modern slang) A person, especially a male, with unusually long hair and often wearing ragged or sloppy clothes.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

Adjektiv

1. Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
2. (colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.