Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US campus) vegetarian, hippy.

1990		Eble Campus Sl. Apr.
2005		‘Doonesbury’ in Guardian G2 10 Nov. 29: Back in the day he was happenin’! Bell bottoms, Donovan records, crunchy politics.
2012		slate.com 28 May 🌐 A North African tyrant in hiding falls for a crunchy Brooklyn peace activist.
2012		Independent 24 Jan. 36/1: The organic food movement started with all those oatmeal dykes in San Francisco in the early 1970s.