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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.

Many of the hippies who initiated the Summer of Love had moved on by the 1970s.

hippies = 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.

They moved to New York right after college, had me a few years later, then moved to a brick townhouse in North River Heights, the hippie-stroller capital of upper upper Manhattan, when I was about a year old.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

hippie = 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.
Mal Peet -- Tamar

hippy = from the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.

"Yeah, but you said he was a white hippie before," Peewee said.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

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.

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.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One

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.

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."
Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street

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.

In the darkened, air-conditioned interior of the SUV, they seemed so ordinary: Flamel looked like a fading hippy, and Scatty, despite her rather military dress sense, wouldn't have looked out of place behind the counter at The Coffee Cup.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst

hippy = a member of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.

I've pored over grainy sepia pictures of long-dead relatives in babushkas; black-and-white snapshots of distant cousins in crisp white linen suits, soldiers in uniform, ladies with beehive hairdos; Polaroids of bell-bottomed teenagers and long-haired hippies, and not once have I been able to detect even the slightest trace of August's face in their faces.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

hippies = members 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.

This lady looks like one a them hippies I seen on Miss Leefolt's tee-vee.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
I walked past the swings and the jungle gym to what was called the Creative Playground, built by a bunch of hippie parents when I was in grade school.
Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
She's not much of a hippie, but she has that whole free-spirit vibe."
John Green -- Paper Towns
—But he's a hippie, not some kind of hardcore salesman type, he said, then appeared worried he'd offended Alan.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
Clary called Becky's style "hippie-chic"; about half her clothes came from vintage stores, and the other half she sewed herself.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
He remembered the word for them: hippies.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
The Romantics were not unlike the hippies a hundred and fifty years later.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
But I tell you what: I taught that—that hippie teacher of yours, Ms.
Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
My high school teachers were ex-hippies and Vietnam vets.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
The hippie midwife led Mom inside and Dad asked me if I wanted to come, too.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
I think I expected a leftover hippie scene from the 1960s.
Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl
Rednecks to the east, hippies to the west.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went

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