yippie
n.
member of the hippie pacifist movement
interj.
Hurray! (shout of joy, cheer)
Youth International Party
The Youth International Party (whose adherents were known as Yippies, a variant on "
Hippies" that is also used to designate the surviving circles of activists who came out of the now-defunct YIP) was a highly theatrical
political party established in the
United States in
1966. An offshoot of the
free speech and anti-war movements of the
1960s, the Yippies presented a more radically youth-oriented and
countercultural alternative to those movements. They employed theatrical gestures—such as advancing a pig ("
Pigasus the Immortal") as a candidate for President in 1968—to mock the social status quo.
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Yippie (der)
n.
yippie, member of the hippie pacifist movement
yippie
Synonyms and related words:
Bohemian, Bolshevik, Jacobin, Wobbly, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, beatnik, deviant, dissenter, dropout, extreme left-winger, extremist, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, left-wing extremist, lunatic fringe, maverick, mild radical, misfit, nihilist, nonconformist, nonjuror, original, parlor Bolshevik, parlor pink, pink, pinko, radical, red, revolutionary, revolutionist, sans-culotte, sectarian, sectary, subversive, swinger, syndicalist, ugly duckling, ultra, ultraist, unconformist
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
YIPPIE
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