Hippies

Definition: Hippies

Hippies

Noun

1. 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.

Synonyms: Hippies

Synonyms: flower people (n), hipsters (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: hippie hepatitis (medicine), hippy movement (social sciences), hippy velour (industry), wild suede.

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Crosswords: Hippies

English words defined with "hippies": aimless ♦ bootboys ♦ drifting ♦ floating ♦ skinheads ♦ vagabond, vagrant. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hippies

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Attention hippies! Come out peacefully so we can smash your drug mill and all your worldly possessions! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Marge, not in front of the hippies! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Movie/TV Titles	El Fantástico mundo de los hippies (1970) Il Professor Matusa e i suoi hippies (1964) Hippies (1999)
Song Titles	Hippies Lament (performing artist: Wally Pleasant)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hippies

Domain	Title
Books	How I overcame my fear of whores, royalty, gays, teachers, hippies, psychiatrists, athletes, transvestites, clergymen, police, children, bullies, politicians, nuns, grandparents, doctors, celebrities, gurus, judges, artists, critics, mothers, fathers, pub (reference) Hippies From A to Z: Their Sex, Drugs, Music and Impact From the Sixties to the Present (reference) The 60's: Mods & Hippies (20th Century Fashion) (reference) Hippies, drugs, and promiscuity (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hippies

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Photo Album: Hippies

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Real bread : the stoned union of hippies.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hippies

"Hippies" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 86.57% of the time. "Hippies" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	86.57%	116	29,969
Noun (proper)	11.19%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (-s form)	2.24%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	134	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Hippies

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hippies": non-hippies.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hippies

Language		Translations for "hippies"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Hippies, Blumenkinder. (various references)

Pig Latin		ippieshay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hippies

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hippies": hippiest. (additional references)
	Words ending with "hippies": chippies. (additional references)
	Words containing "hippies": chippiest, whippiest. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hippies" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: happie, Happies, herppies, hipie, hippeis, hippi, Hippikes, hippiness, yippies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hippies"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hippies" (pronounced hi"pēz)
3	-p ē z	copies, groupies, Guppies, herpes, philanthropies, photocopies, poppies, puppies, recipes, therapies, yuppies.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hippies

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-p-p-s"
	-1 letter: hippie.
	-2 letters: pipes.
	-3 letters: hies, hips, pehs, peps, phis, pies, pipe, pips, pish, ship, sipe.
	-4 letters: hep, hes, hie, hip, his, peh, pep, pes, phi, pie, pip, pis, psi, sei, she, sip.
	-5 letters: eh, es, he, hi, is, pe, pi, sh, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-i-i-p-p-s"
	+1 letter: chippies, hippiest, pipefish.
	+2 letters: chippiest, epiphysis, hippiness, whippiest.
	+3 letters: epiphanies, epiphysial, epiphytism, hippiedoms, hippieness, pipefishes, princeship, reshipping, sapphirine.
	+4 letters: amphiphiles, epigraphies, epigraphist, epinephrins, epiphytisms, hippinesses, pedophilias, peripheries, periphrasis, premiership, primateship, princeships.
	+5 letters: discipleship, epigraphists, epinephrines, epiphytotics, hippienesses, periphrastic, philosophies, philosophise, philosophize, planispheric, premierships, primateships.
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