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means A member of a 1960s counterculture movement that rejected mainstream values in favor of peace, communal living, and anti-establishment ideals — a label now often tinged with irony as its aesthetic got absorbed back into the marketplace.
from Hippie grew out of 'hip' and 'hipster,' slang rooted in early-to-mid-20th-century jazz culture meaning someone attuned to the latest, coolest thing — possibly tracing further back to West African language influences via American Black vernacular, though the deepest roots are debated. By the 1960s, 'hippie' emerged as a diminutive, sometimes dismissive term used by older hipsters and the press to describe the younger, scruffier bohemians flooding places like Haight-Ashbury — smaller, softer, and less street-tough than the hipster who came before.
- origin word
- from hipster, meaning in the know
- peak year
- 1967, the Summer of Love
- legacy
- gave us yoga studios and Burning Man LLCs
- irony
- tie-dye now mass produced in factories