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

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

Elsewhere in the documentary, narrated by Kate Winslet, he is described as a "bit of a hippie".

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

That may sound like hippie woo-woo nonsense, but I’m too young to be a member of the “Woodstock generation.”

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel