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hip·py
(hĭp′ē)n.
Variant of hippie.
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hippy
(ˈhɪpɪ) orhippie
n, pl -pies
a. (esp during the 1960s) a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc, implied a rejection of conventional values
b. (as modifier): hippy language.
[C20: see hip4]
hippy
(ˈhɪpɪ)adj, -pier or -piest
informal (esp of a woman) having large hips
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hip•py1
(ˈhɪp i)adj. -pi•er, -pi•est.
having big hips.
[1890–95]
hip•py2
(ˈhɪp i)n., pl. -pies.
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Noun | 1. | hippy - someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle flower people, hippies, hipsters - 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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hippy
hippienoun flower child, bohemian, dropout, free spirit, beatnik Being a hippie was about `finding yourself'.
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Translations
figlio dei fiorihippiehippy
hipijshipiju-
hippiehippiovský
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
hippy
[ˈhɪpi] n = hippiehip replacement n → prothèse f de la hancheto have a hip replacement
She's had a hip replacement → On lui a posé une prothèse de la hanche.hip size n → tour m de hanches
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hippy
, hippien → Hippie m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
hippie,
hippy
(ˈhipi) – plural ˈhippies – noun, adjective (of) a usually young person who does not wish to live by the normal rules of society and who shows his rejection of these rules by his unusual clothes, habits etc. The farm cottage was bought by a group of young hippies; (also adjective) hippy clothes.
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