Other forms: hippies
A hippie was a young person of the 1960s who grew their hair long, wore beads and flowers, and wanted peace instead of war. Woodstock, a painted camper van, a guitar on a beach.
The word names a real movement — American and European, roughly 1965 to 1975 — and it is still used loosely for anyone with that look or those politics. Calling somebody a hippie today can be affectionate or dismissive, and the tone decides which. It stretches to things as well as people: a hippie van, hippie music, a hippie shop that smells of incense. The spelling hippy is equally correct.
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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First appears in chapter 12 of A Man Called Ove.
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