Crossword clues for hippies
hippies
- Many Woodstock concertgoers
- Longhairs
- A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s
- Advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs
- Favored acid rock and progressive rock music
- Flower people
- Beatnik successors
- Beatniks somewhat high starting to puff on empty pipes
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of hippie English) 2 (hippy English)
WordNet
n. a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music [syn: flower people, hipsters]
Wikipedia
Hippies is a six-part British television comedy series broadcast on BBC 2 from 12 November to 17 December 1999. It was created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, the writing partnership most famous for Father Ted, but the scripts were written by Mathews alone. It starred Simon Pegg, Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Darren Boyd.
Hippies is the second studio album by Austin, Texas based garage rock band Harlem. The album was recorded in 2009 at The Distillery in Costa Mesa, California and released on April 6, 2010.
Usage examples of "hippies".
The ex-beatniks among them, many of whom are now making money off the new scene, incline to the view that hippies are, in fact, second-generation beatniks and that everything genuine in the Haight-Ashbury is about to be swallowed -- like North Beach and the Village -- in a wave of publicity and commercialism.
To my left, at the base of the monument, a group of hippies was passing a joint around.
With a few loud exceptions, it is only the younger hippies who see themselves as a new breed.
Some hippies work, others live on money from home and many are full-time beggars.
But as the word got around, more and more hippies showed up to eat, and the Diggers were forced to roam far afield to get food.
He urges hippies to move out of the cities, form tribes, purchase land and live communally in remote areas.
For the past few months, the scene has been filled up with would-be hippies from other parts of the country, primarily Los Angeles and New York.
Haight-Ashbury, but the hippies did not contribute much more to it than other members of the neighborhood.
The fact that the hippies and the squares have worked out such a peaceful coexistence seems to baffle the powers at City Hall.
A doctor at San Francisco General Hospital says there are at least 10,000 hippies in the Haight-Ashbury, and that about four of them a day wind up in a psychiatric ward on bad trips.
Even among hippies, anything more than one dose of acid a week is considered excessive.
Most heads are relatively careful about their drug diets, but in recent months the area has attracted so many young, inexperienced hippies that public freak-outs are a fairly routine thing.
Last year in Berkeley, hard-core political radicals who had always viewed hippies as spiritual allies began to worry about the long-range implications of the Haight-Ashbury scene.
Unlike the dedicated radicals who emerged from the Free Speech Movement, the hippies were more interested in dropping out of society than they were in changing it.
The lesson was not lost on the hippies, many of whom still considered themselves at least part-time political activists.