Groovy vs Hippie - What's the difference?
groovy | hippie |
Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
(dated) Set in one's ways.
* (Rudyard Kipling)
(dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.
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A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
(modern ) A person, especially a male, with unusually long hair and often wearing ragged clothes.
Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
One who is hip.
Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
(colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.
As an adjective groovy
is of, pertaining to, or having grooves or groovy can be (dated|slang) cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.As a noun hippie is
hippie, hippy.groovy
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Alternative forms
* grooveyEtymology 1
Adjective
(er)- The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.
- She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy .
Etymology 2
From the phrase in the groove , ultimately from the grooves of an early phonograph record.Adjective
(er)- "Wow, man! This psychedelic wallpaper is totally groovy ! " said the hippie.
- "Have a groovy day, dudes. " said the surfer in his latest movie.
- ''Marching around the hallways of school while making a racket, the drummer in the marching band said, "60s music is very groovy! "
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