zippiehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zippie_n1%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZippie, n.¹
First published 2021

Zippienoun1

U.S. Now chiefly historical.
  1. 1968–
    A member of a radical countercultural activist group; spec. a member of a short-lived breakaway group of Youth International Party members, or Yippies (see Yippie n.), which demonstrated at the Republican and Democratic conventions in Miami Beach in 1972.
    1. 1968
      He [sc. Hubert Humphrey] was cool toward the untidy hippies and Yippies and zippies, from whom he drew some of his strength.
      Beckley (West Virginia) Post-Herald 23 September 4/7
    2. 1971
      Zippies are ‘urging you to lend your talents to the design of a utopian cultural spasm to coincide with the conspired collapse of the Political Processing in Miami and San Diego in the summer of '72’.
      Berkeley Tribe December 15
    3. 1994
      At Sungod kitchen I meet Shiloh, an original Zippy from the Seventies, whose nose is punched with two silver rings and whose hair is shaved along the left side of his scalp.
      Independent on Sunday 24 July (Review Supplement) 12/4
    4. 2009
      The Zippies hated Hoffman and Jerry Rubin with a vengeance that revolutionaries reserve only for each other.
      M. Roselle & J. Mahan, Tree Spiker ii. 27

Zippie, n.¹ was first published in March 2021.

Zippie, n.¹ was last modified in December 2023.