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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yippie/ˈjɪpi/

▶noun (pl. 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.

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