zippiehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zippie_n2%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezippie, n.²
First published 2021

zippienoun2

Originally and chiefly British.
  1. 1986–
    A member of a cultural group associated with the British rave and festival scene of the late 1980s and 1990s, characterized by an enthusiasm for technology and an interest in ecological issues and unorthodox spiritual and metaphysical ideas. Cf. techno-hippie n., techno-pagan n.
    1. 1986
      Zippies (90s Hippies) suggest that the key concept, which can instantly resolve the seeming complexity to much more manageable proportion, lies in the general polarities within each human psyche between 60s Hippy and Technoperson.
      Encycl. Psychedelica vol. 1 25/1
    2. 1990
      The Mandelbrot Set, as any Zippie could tell you, is a computer-generated pattern derived from chaos science.
      Sunday Times 7 October v. 5/5
    3. 1994
      With the launch of Clark's Megatripopolis club at London's Heaven last October, complete with laser shows, virtual reality booths and psychedelic trance music, the zippies came fully into being.
      Independent on Sunday 24 July (Review Supplement) 11/4
    4. 2014
      Then there were ‘the zippies’, a techno-hippie subculture that made the cover of Wired in 1994.
      New York Times 19 October (Late edition) 76/1

zippie, n.² was first published in March 2021.

zippie, n.² was last modified in December 2023.