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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
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