The meaning of hippie is a usually young person who rejects the mores of established society (as by dressing unconventionally or favoring communal living) and advocates a nonviolent ethic; A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in british english, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the united รขโ‚ฌยฆ The hippie movement emerged in the united states during the 1960s as a countercultural movement that rejected mainstream society.