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hippie trail

hippie trail noun: the journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.

hippie trail: the journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel
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Noun

hippie trail (plural hippie trails)

  1. The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.
    • Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work
    • The original Hippie Trail grew out of the 1960s the same way just about everything else did at the time: with a search for spiritual enlightenment, or at any rate, drug-induced enlightenment, or at any rate, drugs.2003, Doug Lansky, First-time Around the World, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 84

Forms of hippie trail

pluralhippie trails

Questions about hippie trail

What does hippie trail mean?
Hippie trail means the journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.
What part of speech is hippie trail?
Hippie trail is a noun.
What is the plural of hippie trail?
The plural of hippie trail is hippie trails.

Words near hippie trail in the dictionary

  1. hippie flip
  2. hippie flipped
  3. hippie flipping
  4. hippie flips
  5. hippie punching
  6. hippie trail
  7. hippie trails
  8. hippie-clown
  9. hippie-dippie
  10. hippie-dippies
  11. hippiedom

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