FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n (context|in the 1950s) A teenager who imitated the beatniks

n (context|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 pacifist|pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.

n Someone with unusually long hair.

n Someone who dresses in a hippie style.

n One who is hip.

a Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.

a (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”.