hippies
Tie-dye generation
Hippies were members of a youth counterculture movement that emerged in the 1960s, rejecting mainstream values in favor of peace, free love, communal living, and psychedelic drug use.
The term now applies more loosely to anyone embracing similar anti-establishment attitudes or bohemian lifestyles: a bunch of hippies protesting the pipeline, My parents were old hippies.
Sometimes used dismissively for people perceived as impractical idealists.
Landmark 1969 music festival
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- communeShared-living community
- free loveUnstructured romantic and sexual bonds
beatniks · draft dodging · nonconformity · Haight-Ashbury · underground press · dropouts · freaks · longhairs
Shared-living community
- organicFrom living matter
- vegetarianOne who abstains from flesh
- back-to-natureReturn to simpler living
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
self-sufficiency · gardening · barefoot · tie-dye · macramé · candles · incense · beads
Landmark 1969 music festival
- Grateful DeadLegendary jam band
- Jefferson AirplanePsychedelic rock band
- psychedelic rockHallucinogen-inspired music genre
- folk rockTraditional melodies, amplified instruments
Jimi Hendrix · Janis Joplin · Bob Dylan · jam band · festival · sitar · The Doors · Joni Mitchell
Gesture symbolizing nonviolence
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- doveGentle cooing bird
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
love · brotherhood · coexistence · flower children · gentle · mellow · vibes · togetherness
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- tripPlanned travel somewhere
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- mind-expandingBroadening one's awareness
Timothy Leary · shrooms · psilocybin · mescaline · hallucination · altered states · kaleidoscopic · visionary
Pursuit of divine union
- meditationFocused attention practice
- yogaMind-body exercise discipline
- ZenMeditative Buddhist school
- Hare KrishnaHindu devotional movement
astrology · tarot · crystals · chakras · karma · mantra · guru · ashram
Campaign advocating nonviolent resolution
- anti-warOpposed to armed conflict
- Vietnam protestOpposition to military involvement
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
sit-in · march · environmentalism · Earth Day · social justice · grassroots · nonviolent resistance · boycott
Woodstock
Landmark 1969 music festival
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- Summer of Love1967 counterculture convergence
- communeShared-living community
free love · beatniks · draft dodging · nonconformity · Haight-Ashbury · underground press · dropouts · freaks · longhairs · love-in
commune
Shared-living community
- organicFrom living matter
- vegetarianOne who abstains from flesh
- back-to-natureReturn to simpler living
handmade · self-sufficiency · gardening · barefoot · tie-dye · macramé · candles · incense · beads · bell-bottoms
Woodstock
Landmark 1969 music festival
- Grateful DeadLegendary jam band
- Jefferson AirplanePsychedelic rock band
- psychedelic rockHallucinogen-inspired music genre
Jimi Hendrix · Janis Joplin · Bob Dylan · folk rock · jam band · festival · sitar · The Doors · Joni Mitchell · acid rock
peace sign
Gesture symbolizing nonviolence
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonviolencePrincipled rejection of force
- doveGentle cooing bird
harmony · love · brotherhood · coexistence · flower children · gentle · mellow · vibes · togetherness · universal love
LSD
Psychedelic hallucinogen
- acidLow-pH chemical compound
- tripPlanned travel somewhere
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
mind-expanding · Timothy Leary · shrooms · psilocybin · mescaline · hallucination · altered states · kaleidoscopic · visionary · consciousness expansion
mysticism
Pursuit of divine union
- meditationFocused attention practice
- yogaMind-body exercise discipline
- ZenMeditative Buddhist school
Hare Krishna · astrology · tarot · crystals · chakras · karma · mantra · guru · ashram · transcendence
peace movement
Campaign advocating nonviolent resolution
- anti-warOpposed to armed conflict
- Vietnam protestOpposition to military involvement
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
demonstration · sit-in · march · environmentalism · Earth Day · social justice · grassroots · nonviolent resistance · boycott · consciousness raising
- 70sdisco, bell-bottoms, Saturday Night Fever, pet rock, leisure suits
- Nonconformistsnonconformist, rebels, rebel, misfits, misfit
- BoomersAARP, AARP member, empty nester, empty nesters, grandparent
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, draft resistance
- Swinging SixtiesCarnaby Street, mods, mod fashion, Beatles, Rolling Stones
- Bohemiabohemian dress, boho chic, free spirits, nonconformists, counterculture
hippiessquares
Four-sided equal figures
conformists · straights · antihippie · bourgeoisie · Middle America
hippiesmilitarists
Advocates of armed aggression
hawks · warmongers · hardliners · materialists · teetotalers
hippieshard hats
Rigid protective headgear
conservatives · hawks · right-wingers · reactionaries · Young Republicans
- hippie cultureAnti-establishment youth movement
- hippie movementCountercultural youth phenomenon
- hippie communeShared countercultural living arrangement
- hippie style1960s bohemian aesthetic
- hippie attireCounterculture movement clothing
- hippie trailCounterculture journey to Asia