Guppy vs Hippie - What's the difference?
guppy | hippie |
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.
By extension, any tiny fish.
(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.
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 nouns the difference between guppy and hippie
is that guppy is guppy while hippie is hippie, hippy.guppy
English
Noun
(guppies)- Fred kept a tank of guppies by the windowsill.
- Throw that one back; it’s just a guppy!