Green’s Dictionary of Slang

xippie n.

[the X of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X + hippie n.2 (3)]

a modern young person who wishes to adopt the lifestyle of the hippies of the 1960s.

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Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 xippie n 1. a young person who pretends to be a hippie. Origin: combination of the terms ‘generation-x’ and ‘hippie’. Pronounced ‘zippie’. (‘My son and his friends are becoming xippies.’).