hippies

Noun

Meaning

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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The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. Alice Cooper

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. Ben Elton

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth. Ethan Suplee

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now. Imelda Staunton

Hippies are so phoney and fake. George Harrison

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. Joe Strummer

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