hippie

Someone who wears loose, colorful clothes, often with long hair and beads.

• He dresses like a hippie.
• The hippies wore beads and bright shirts.
• With those sandals and long hair, she looks like a hippie.

Common phrases: dress like a hippie, a modern hippie, long-haired hippie

A young person who copied the clothes and lifestyle of people interested in jazz, poetry, and unconventional living.

• The teenage hippie copied the local beatniks.
• Those hippies gathered at a jazz coffeehouse.
• He recalled being a young hippie who dressed like his favorite beat poet.

Similar words: beatnik

Common phrases: young hippie, teenage hippie, coffeehouse hippie

Connected with people known for colorful clothes, peace, and a lifestyle outside society’s usual rules.

• She likes hippie clothes.
• The shop sells bags with hippie designs.
• Their parents belonged to a hippie community in the seventies.

Similar words: bohemian

Common phrases: hippie culture, hippie clothes, hippie movement, hippie style

Different from the usual way of doing things, often in a way the speaker finds strange.

• They chose some hippie file format.
• His hippie methods puzzled the rest of the team.
• Why use that hippie software when everyone knows the standard program?

Similar words: unconventional, nonstandard, unorthodox

Opposites: conventional, standard

Common phrases: hippie formats, hippie methods, hippie approach