flower child Meaning of "flower child"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

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Usage(s):

  1. He is a man in search of his own soul, and the adventure has transformed a stuffed shirt into something of a flower child.
  2. Melanie Hutsell, by contrast, is goofily off kilter as her sister Jan, a flower child waiting to blossom beneath her wire-rim glasses.
  3. Allegra Goodman's breakthrough novel follows a flower child on her comic quest for enlightenment.
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