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Guppy vs Hippie - What's the difference?

guppy | hippie |

As nouns the difference between guppy and hippie

is that guppy is guppy while hippie is hippie, hippy.

guppy

English

Noun

(guppies)
  • A tiny freshwater fish, , popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males.
  • Fred kept a tank of guppies by the windowsill.
  • By extension, any tiny fish.
  • Throw that one back; it’s just a guppy!
  • (paintball) A tube holding paintballs before they are loaded into the gun.
  • * 2001 , John R. Little, Curtis Wong, Ultimate Paintball Field Guide (page 177)
  • * I reached into my pack and grabbed a guppy to reload. Pouring in the contents, I kept my eyes ahead as I was supposed to do.
  • Synonyms

    * (millionfish) (obsolete taxonomic names) * Acanthocephalus guppii * Acanthocephalus reticulatus * Girardinus guppii * Girardinus petersi * Girardinus poeciloides * Girardinus reticulatus * Haridichthys reticulatus * Heterandria guppyi * Lebistes poecilioides * Lebistes reticulatus * Poecilia poeciloides * Poecilia reticulata * Poecilioides reticulatus

    See also

    * ("guppy" on Wikipedia) * * (Poecilia reticulata) English eponyms ----

    hippie

    English

    (wikipedia hippie)

    Alternative forms

    * hippy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (teenager who imitated the beatniks) beatnik * treehugger

    Derived terms

    * hippiedom

    See also

    * feral

    Adjective

    (er)
  • 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”.
  • Synonyms

    * beatnik