All 11 Uses of
hippie
in
A Walk Across America
- Those of us who had long hair or a beard were labeled hippies, scum, and the pits.†
Chpt 2 *
- At one time he would have thought I was a mindless, hippie bum for questioning whether our homeland was still any good.†
Chpt 8
- Back in the Graham County seat, the citizens were ready to run the damn Yankee hippie out of town one way or the other.†
Chpt 12
- "Listen, you troublemaking hippie," he shouted as he grabbed the cards from my hand, "I don't give a damn who in the hell you say you are.†
Chpt 12
- The city was the incubator for the hippie culture: it had the lure of unrestricted dope, free love, ear-crushing electric music, and LSD.†
Chpt 20
- Soon the story was out on those strange-looking but hardworking hippies from the Farm.†
Chpt 20
- Where you from, you ugly whiskered hippie?†
Chpt 24
- Callin' me a chicken, hippie?" he shouted with his 100 proof breath curling the hairs on my beard.†
Chpt 24
- Ya got a beard and ya may even be a hippie, but"—he wrestled for words and finally finished—"but thar's somethin' bout ya …. um-m-m-m ya got guts standin' up to me and tha boys here and that's all right!"†
Chpt 24
- Let tha hippie fella do his thang.†
Chpt 24
- Now you ain't one of them hippies, aw ya?†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(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.