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hippie (oh) and laxative (iou)


hippie (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: HIP2]
someone, especially in the 1960s, who opposed violence peacefully and often wore unusual clothes, had long hair, and took drugs for pleasure

laxative (iou)



laxative adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French laxatif, -ive or late Latin laxativus, from Latin laxat-: see LAXATION, -ATIVE.]
A. adjective.
Of medicine etc.: tending to cause evacuation of the bowels. LME.
Of the bowels etc.: loose. Of a disease: characterized by looseness of the bowels. Now rare. LME.
b. transf. Unable to contain one's speech or emotions. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
b. noun.
A laxative medicine. LME.
(A) looseness of the bowels. rare. LME-E16.
laxativeness noun E17.