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  • Inside, he looks at her books arranged in milk crates, at the futon on the floor in a bedroom with no door, and whispers, "Hippie," in the same way he looks at boys hanging out in his neighborhood and says, "Drogas."  (source)
    Hippie = member of the counterculture that first became prevalent in the early 1960's in San Francisco -- associated with disdaining material wealth, illegal drugs, long hair, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • He followed the sound toward the logging road and saw the stranger with a dog, walking slowly up the road, looking like some kind of hippie from the sixties.  (source)
    hippie = member of the counterculture that first became prevalent in the early 1960's in San Francisco -- associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • "Yeah, but you said he was a white hippie before," Peewee said.  (source)
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  • I might have been a hippie, but now I had rules—no drugs, no alcohol, nothing that was going to lead to social services taking my baby away.†  (source)
    hippie = a member of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • But it was midweek and there was only Baba and me, us and a couple of longhaired, bearded tourists—"hippies," I'd heard them called.†  (source)
    hippies = members of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • Our neighbours were four surf boys, all with straggled bottle-blond hair, half a dozen hippy necklaces apiece, and huge patchy shorts.  (source)
    hippy = from the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • The jungles outside Hanalei town had been taken over by a strange breed of hippie surfers.†  (source)
    hippie = a member of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • There were families sheltered in cheap tent trailers, aging hippies in Day-Glo vans, Charles Manson look-alikes sleeping in rusted-out Studebakers that hadn't turned over since Eisenhower was in the White House.†  (source)
    hippies = members of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • She approached my bedside, a hippy broad with dark hair and big arms.†  (source)
    hippy = a member of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • I think I expected a leftover hippie scene from the 1960s.†  (source)
  • This lady looks like one a them hippies I seen on Miss Leefolt's tee-vee.†  (source)
    hippies = members of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • "Gah," Oedipa screamed, and fled, Nefastis snapping his fingers through the dark rooms behind her in a hippy-dippy, oh-go-ahead-then-chick fashion he had doubtless learned from watching the TV also.†  (source)
    hippy = a member of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • All right, so my mom was something of a hippie when I was a kid.†  (source)
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