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a flower child who dropped out, tuned in, and never quite left the sixties.
means someone who rejects mainstream conventions in favor of peace, communal living, and personal freedom, usually with more tie-dye than a paint factory.
from from hipster, itself from hip, meaning aware or in-the-know; by the 1960s san francisco press used it to describe the young bohemians flooding haight-ashbury.
peak year1967 summer of love brought 100,000 to san francisco
word coinercolumnist herb caen popularized hippie in print, 1965
woodstock link1969 festival became the movement's defining image