Hippie

Someone who rejects the established culture dresses casually and advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle Used especially of those in the late 1960s mostly in their late teens and early twenties who conspicuously rejected traditional culture by dressing casually if male wore their hair long and wore folksy or used clothing adorned with beads headbands and often flowers they emphasized the importance of love and direct personal relations rather than success oriented businesslike behavior strove for spontaneity sometimes lived communally and in some cases tried to expand their consciousness by various psychological techniques such as meditation or through the use of consciousness altering drugs such as marijuana or LSD By the end of the Vietnam war in the 1970s the numbers of people living a visibly hippie lifestyle had dramatically decreased though some people continue to develop similar views and live with the same outlook