hippies

Questions about hippies

What does hippies mean?

hippies means "a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music".

How many syllables are in hippies?

hippies has 2 syllables: hip-pies. The stress falls on "hip". In IPA it is /ˈhɪpiz/.

What is another word for hippies?

Close synonyms include flower people, hipsters. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hippies a common word?

hippies is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hippies come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.