flower child
n. Informal
A hippie, especially an idealistic one of the 1960s or early 1970s.
[From the custom of carrying or wearing flowers to symbolize peace and love.]
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flow′er child`
n.
a hippie, esp. in the 1960s, advocating love, peace, and simple idealistic values.
[1965–70]
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| Noun | 1. |  flower child - someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyleflower people, hippies, hipsters - a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer - a disputant who advocates reform |
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