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Record 1 2012-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Movements
DEF

Any of the young people of the 1960s and 1970s who, in their alienation from conventional society, turned variously to mysticism, psychedelic drugs, communal living, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements sociaux
OBS

Pluriel : des hippies, des hippys.

OBS

hippies; hippys : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Movimientos sociales
DEF

Partidario o simpatizante [del movimiento contracultural juvenil surgido en los Estados Unidos de América en la década de 1960], o que adopta alguna de las actividades que le son propias.

OBS

Jipi. La RAE recomienda que se hispanicen así los anglicismos hippie y hippy.

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