Yippie (disambiguation)

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Yippie usually refers to members of the Youth International Party, a radical counter-culture group founded in 1968.

The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. It was founded on December 31, 1967. They employed theatrical gestures, such as advancing a pig as a candidate for President in 1968, to mock the social status quo. They have been described as a highly theatrical, anti-authoritarian and anarchist youth movement of "symbolic politics".

Yippie may also refer to:

Yippie (lifestyle), a portmanteau of the terms "Yuppie" and "Hippie" used to describe a socially/environmentally conscious lifestyle without the "uptightness" of yuppies but more industrious and hygienic than hippies. However, the term Huppie (also a portmanteau of Yuppie and Hippie) is generally preferred in this case to avoid confusion with members of the Youth International Party, who were also called Yippies.

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes.

"Yuppie" is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city.

A hippie is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco with Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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