hippie
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When hippie helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
E H I P
Two-Letter Start
HI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IE
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 4 unique letters
- HI start
- IE ending
- repeated letters
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- hippie is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include e, h, i, p plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (I x2, P x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The IE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the HI start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 2 published Daily pages.
Pronunciation
noun
(1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
noun
(1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes 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.
noun
(modern slang) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and wearing unusually long hair (for males), and because of it, often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
noun
Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
noun
One who is hip.
adjective
Of or pertaining to hippies.
"That dress looks very hippie."
adjective
Not conforming to generally accepted standards.
"They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP."
Related Words
Synonyms
- flowerchild
- treehugger
- beatnik
- beatnik