Both Uses of
hippie
in
Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
- 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.
p. 103.7 *hippie = members 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.
p. 103.9hippies = 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.
Definitions:
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(1)
(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.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, hippy can refer to someone's hips.