hippie

Example Sentences

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Whiteman has always been culturally engaged, his father was a jazz musician, but in his youth some team-mates would call him a "hippie".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

But he articulated things that hadn’t been part of the American grain, becoming his country’s poet laureate of nature and ethics and its hippie Founding Father.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Yet it retains a hippie vibe, with no stop lights and bumper stickers bearing slogans like “Crazy is still better than corporate.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

What I want, right now, is what I would call an old-school hippie bowl.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

“I took a class last semester with this crazy old hippie, Professor Weltzer. He was funny, made everybody call him Rick. Anyway, what do you write? Poems? Short stories? Screenplays?”

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña