Hippie movement

During the 1960's, the ‘hippies’ ushered in a counter-culture movement of peace, free love, and good times that left the world forever c...

Those long-haired tree-huggers sure had a unique way of talking. Here are some excellent hippie words, phrases, and slang with descriptions of what they mean and examples of how to use these terms in conversation. Let your freak flag fly!

Peace and love. Seduction or protest. A flower has always meant something more.

"Said Hufflepuff, 'I'll teach the lot and treat them just the same.'" The other founders are being all high-maintenance and competitive about who to let in and Helga's just like WHATEVER PARTY AT MY PLACE. Like, you know this house is leading the charge on all the wizard civil rights issues.

Magic bus

1971

Woodstock Fetsival Tidye shop August 1969 The picture shown here, was one taken of a booth at a Woodstock Music and Art Fair in August 1969. Counter cultural fashion had prided itself on offering one of a kind, natural, and homemade, again all key elements of the hippie look. In further going along with hippie philosophy, only natural dyes were used.

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The movement against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the U.S. with demonstrations in 1964 and grew in stren...

Woodstock, 1969