hippies

1. Members of a movement of cultural protest that began in the United States in the 1960s and affected Europe before fading in the 1970s. Hippies were bound together by rejection of many standard American customs and social and political views ( see counterculture ). The hippies often cultivated an unkempt image in their dress and grooming and were known for practices such as communal living, free love, and the use of marijuana and other drugs. Although hippies were usually opposed to involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War , their movement was fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest. ( See Woodstock ; compare beatniks .)

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Impressed by their way of thinking, my father began to make "soy sauce for hippies" – an organic soy sauce with no additives.

From Salon

A movement long defined by shaggy hippies encamped in old-growth redwoods and Indigenous protesters chained to construction equipment was remade in the image of two nonbinary university students wielding cans of tomato soup.

From Los Angeles Times

“These people were the hippies of the country. They were peace-loving people who wanted better for everyone. And they were just massacred.”

From Los Angeles Times

They were an eccentric mix: aging hippies, hypebeast college kids and burners bundled in faux fur rainbow coats, swaying to guitar riffs.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s for everyone: goths, punk rockers, hippies, bike messengers, basics,” Fontana said.

From Los Angeles Times