What (who) is yippies - definition

1960S AMERICAN YOUTH-ORIENTED COUNTER-CULTURAL POLITICAL PARTY

Yippies; Youth international; Youth internatinal; Yippie!; Yippie; Yippie Museum/Café; The Youth International Party Line; YIPL; TAP (magazine); Technological American Party; Technological Assistance Program; Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago, '68 to 1984; Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago '68, to 1984

yippies

Young women who find it necessary to scream each others' names at high decibels - repeatedly.
Those yippies are hurting my eardrums.

yippie

¦ noun (plural yippies) a member of a group of young politically active hippies in the US during the 1960s.

Origin

1960s: acronym from Youth International Party + the suffix -ie, suggested by hippy¹.

Wikipedia

Youth International Party

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

Since they were well known for street theatre and politically themed pranks, they were either ignored or denounced by many of the "old school" political left. According to ABC News, "The group was known for street theater pranks and was once referred to as the 'Groucho Marxists'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth International Party

Pronunciation examples for yippies

1. - Bow-wow-wow yippie-yo-yippie-yea - Bow-wow yippie-yo-yippie-yea

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

2. Bow-wow-wow yippie-yo-yippie-yea Bow-wow yippie-yo-yippie-yea

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Examples of use of yippies

1. Then the beatnik poets, yippies and punks tumbled in.

2. Just as the yippies and the police fighting on the streets seemed to come from two different Americas, so the party regulars (some representing superannuated machines that had been around since the 1'20s) and the earnest young reformers (some representing raggedy, born–yesterday bands of college activists and inner–city agitators) plainly came to loathe each other.

3. It produced some of his finest post–Beatles songs, including the anthemic ‘Power to the People‘ and the incendiary ‘Attica State‘, but led to some ill–advised liaisons with the more extreme end of late–Sixties/ early Seventies‘ activism, most notably the Black Panthers and the Yippies – basically radicalised hippies seeking anarchist revolution.