Discussion Groups / British English / August 2004

I recently visited Cotehele, a very pleasant country house in the Tamar
Valley. At the entrance to the house there was a notice asking people with
babies in baby carriers to remove them, but stating that "Hippy Chicks are
available". I was disappointed to discover that this referred to a kind of
bum-bag on which infants could be perched.

I seem to remember that availability was a defining characteristic of hippy
chicks.

Joe Fogey