: a person belonging to or identified with a politically active group of hippies
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This is the way hippies, yippies, and Marxists used to talk.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024 In other words, if a Willis deepfake appears in an American ad for potato chips, then a claim becomes viable; if someone deepfakes Willis’ yippie-ki-yay swagger into a home movie and throws it on YouTube, the actor may not have much of a case.—WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022 In 1967, during the Vietnam War, the Youth International Party, better known as the yippies, decided that the Pentagon was in need of an exorcism—and a levitation.—Wired, 30 Oct. 2019 The hippies and yippies who wanted to levitate the massive 3.7 million-square-foot building couldn’t fully encircle it as planned — though the exorcism was more about theatrics than anything else.—Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
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