How to Use hippie in a Sentence

hippie

noun
Definition of hippienext
  • The band appeals to a new generation of hippies.
  • She used to be a hippie, but she's fairly conservative now.
  • The co-hosts joked that Rodgers could be a hippie or shaman.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The old trope was a hippie freaked out on too much acid who jumped off a roof.
    — Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Why are acorn woodpeckers the hippies of the bird world?
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The song that drew thousands to our shores during the height of the hippie movement.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The new-look Buffs became the cool hippie cousins of Mike Leach, drawing a line in the hot Texas sand for the rest of the world to see.
    — Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • One naked hippie scaled a massive beam near the stage to get a better view.
    — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
  • That’s a tricky question, and a good one, because: What is a hippie?
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • And, as often happens in migrations like this, the hippies paved the way for the artists.
    — Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
  • That’s right, that Donato kid’s a hippie, dude, and will be at least until the end of the play’s run Aug. 21.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Van Driessen was already kind of an old hippie back then.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2022
  • While cruising around one day, a stranger called him a hippie and yelled at him to get a haircut.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Cheech: There was this cool hippie street culture that was evolving in cities across the U.S. ...
    — Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Many of these ‘23 Phish fans looked more like hipsters than hippies.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 12 July 2023
  • Cheech and Chong came back on stage to bring the group their trophy before Kiedis and Flea gave a hippie-like speech.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
  • But Birkenstocks were once solely the province of the hippie.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
  • As longhairs clad in cosmic-hippie garb, Crown Lands look the part too.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The peace sign endures, as a last vestige of a bygone rock ‘n’ roll hippie past, as seen on the front of the store and side of the building.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Some models had long hippie hair; some had buzzed heads.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Anderson’s persona is that of a ray of sunshine, a bright-sider with a side of hippie.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2022
  • It’s not the laid-back, flower-sniffing hippie haven by the Bay that a lot of us remember from past decades.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2022
  • One of the defining bands of the late 1960s hippie counterculture.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The Erwins wondered what happened in between the two cover stories, on the loss of faith, and the hippies who found it.
    — al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The pair were raised by art-hippie parents to play jazz sets in Canadian cafes, with Luke on keys and vocals and Tess on the drums.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Kandel was a part of both the Beat-poetry scene and the hippie movement that would soon peak in 1967’s Summer of Love.
    — Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Blending a cowboy vibe with a hippie vibe is no easy feat, but this song does it nicely.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 17 Nov. 2022
  • There's a religious component of it through Christ, but Christ was the first hippie.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Legal weed might lure the hippies back—or at least their grandchildren.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • During the summer of love, the stately building functioned as a free hippie crash pad.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2022

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