hippie

Etymology

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.

noun

1. (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
2. (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes 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 who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
4. Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
5. One who is hip.

adj

1. Of or pertaining to hippies.
   That dress looks very hippie.
   The drug-taking he's writing about is less hippie than punk: it's about speed and smack and pills as much as hallucinogens and weed, about compulsion as well as escape. 2011, Mike Marqusee, Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s
   You have to understand I worked in a very hippie nightclub for years, and the majority of the staff did not even like the Grateful Dead. 2012, Christopher Lento, The Bartender Diaries...A Life Fantastic!, page 126
   And then I discovered LSD, you can't get much more hippie than that. 2013, Ian Young, It's Not about Me!: Confessions of a Recovered Outlaw Addict
2. (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
   They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.