flower child
[ flou-er chahyld ]
noun,plural flow·er chil·dren.
(in the 1960s and 1970s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
Origin of flower child
1An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; from the conventional image of such people as carrying and distributing flowers
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How to use flower child in a sentence
In an irony, though, that the flower children could never imagine, growing legal pot has tangled Stein in the red tape he has spent his life avoiding.
Although it’s set four decades in the past and works best as an allegory for how baby-boomer flower children grew up to be hypercapitalist yuppies, Physical also feels like a sign of our transitioning times.
Pop Culture Is Finally Getting Over the Girlboss Heroine. What Comes Next? | Judy Berman | June 17, 2021 | TimeThe latter, scion of a well-known political dynasty, was an introspective guitar-strumming flower child with liberal leanings.
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