hippie trail

English

Noun

hippie trail (plural hippie trails)

  1. The journeys taken by hippies and others in the 1960s and 1970s, typically involving cheap travel.
    • 1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:
      Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
    • 2003, Doug Lansky, First-time Around the World, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 84:
      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.
    • 2011, Julie Kavanagh, Nureyev, Vintage, →ISBN:
      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.

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