Hippie is an English word with synonyms like hippy or hipster. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hippie meaning
- A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- 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.
- A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
Using Hippie
- The main meaning on this page is: A teenager who imitated the beatniks. | 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. | A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
- Useful related words include: hippy, hipster, flower child, reformer.
- In the example corpus, hippie often appears in combinations such as: the hippie, hippie movement, hippie culture.
Context around Hippie
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hippie
- In this selection, "hippie" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 1993, song, sexy, counterculture, subculture and movement stand out and add context to how "hippie" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the hippie counterculture also and about the hippie counterculture citation. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hippie" sits close to words such as arran, bronson and carefree, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hippie
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I strive for cool hippie retired art teacher look. (9 words)
His performance as hippie group leader George Berger earned him a Golden Globe nomination. (14 words)
It was really messy inside and I thought it was a hippie-goods shop. (14 words)
I was a Gen X small town punk rock kid who had become a theater geek, folk musician, art weirdo and then married a Boomer trust fund hippie folk musician, had a baby, and ran screaming into sobriety for my dear life. (42 words)
Even those who came to gawk at or mock the dazed-and-contrived hippie-rock presentation — and there was plenty to keep them entertained — had to admire the group's unabashed showmanship and undeniably fiery vocals and guitar work. (39 words)
Other more serious and more critically acclaimed films about the hippie counterculture also appeared such as Easy Rider and Alice's Restaurant (for more information on hippie related films see List of films related to the hippie subculture ). (38 words)
And don't look like a hippie going into Canada (separate trip) in a camper and saying, "I don't know." to the questions of how long are you here for and where are you going? (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Other more serious and more critically acclaimed films about the hippie counterculture also appeared such as Easy Rider and Alice's Restaurant (for more information on hippie related films see List of films related to the hippie subculture ).
As in the beat movement preceding them, and the punk movement that followed soon after, hippie symbols and iconography were purposely borrowed from either "low" or "primitive" cultures, with hippie fashion reflecting a disorderly, often vagrant style.
Couple attending Snoqualmie Moondance Festival, August 1993 Hippie communes, where members tried to live the ideals of the hippie movement continued to flourish.
Hippie exploitation films are 1960s exploitation films about the hippie counterculture citation with stereotypical situations associated with the movement such as cannabis and LSD use, sex and wild psychedelic parties.
Jason King star Peter Wyngarde recorded a self-titled album in 1970 which contained the song "Hippie and the Skinhead" about Billy the "queer sexy hippie" "trolling the Dilly".
Poster for the hippie exploitation film Psych-Out A sign of this was the visibility that the hippie subculture gained in various mainstream and underground media.
And don't look like a hippie going into Canada (separate trip) in a camper and saying, "I don't know." to the questions of how long are you here for and where are you going?
But while many of the locals fretted about the hippie invasion, the real threat to their community went unnoticed.
Even those who came to gawk at or mock the dazed-and-contrived hippie-rock presentation — and there was plenty to keep them entertained — had to admire the group's unabashed showmanship and undeniably fiery vocals and guitar work.
His performance as hippie group leader George Berger earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
In that movement, you would have encountered Greg Laurie, a young seeker (played by Joel Courtney), and Lonnie Frisbee, a hippie preacher with a unique vision of what “church” should be.
I strive for cool hippie retired art teacher look.
It was really messy inside and I thought it was a hippie-goods shop.
I was a Gen X small town punk rock kid who had become a theater geek, folk musician, art weirdo and then married a Boomer trust fund hippie folk musician, had a baby, and ran screaming into sobriety for my dear life.
The comer-of-age is Bruce Pike, a solitary boy whose life takes a turn for the dramatic when he gets obsessed with surfing and falls under the spell of a mysterious wave-riding hippie.
The desire for flashy, modern cars clashed with the retro charm of the Hippie Van.
The hippie movement, the funeral for original guitarist Brian Jones and the Hyde Park tribute concert, and the tragedy of Altamont are all captured.
The monologue was rambling in the “redneck hippie” sort of way you might expect from the marijuana-advocating actor.
You think of the late ’60s-early ’70s, and the hippie generation — that’s when Jell-O begins to take its precipitous downfall, because people don’t want artificial colors and flavors.
An endearing plot-thread has Eddie and Brock bond with an alien-obsessed hippie family on their way to Area 51, which feels like a cheeky nod to the 2019 social media campaign to storm the base.
Common combinations with hippie
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: