hippie trail

noun

The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.

Meanings

nounhippie trail (plural hippie trails)

plural hippie trails

  1. The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.

    Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

    1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert, “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work
    2 more examples

    The original Hippie Trail grew out of the 1960s the same way just about everything else did at the time: with a search for spiritual enlightenment, or at any rate, drug-induced enlightenment, or at any rate, drugs.

    2003, Doug Lansky, First-time Around the World, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 84

    Following the example of Talitha—“the daring one”—Paul junior [Getty] had started experimenting with increasingly perilous drugs, and together they floated off on the hippie trail around the East.

    2011, Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev, Vintage, →ISBN
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