American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. A person who opposes and rejects many of the
conventional standards and customs of society, especially one
who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and
lifestyles. - n. in the 1950s A teenager who imitated the
beatniks - n. in the 1960s; still widely used in reference to
that era One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social
norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as
acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or
radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong
pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc. - n. Someone with unusually
long hair. - n. Someone who dresses in a hippie style. - n. One
who is hip. - adj. Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the
hippie era”. - adj. colloquial Not conforming to generally
accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used
Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used
RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, th