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Hipster
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- 1 A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
"c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239, I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]"
- 2 someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle wordnet
- 3 A member of Bohemian counterculture.
- 4 An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
"Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”"
- 5 A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol). US, obsolete
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- 6 A dancer, particularly a female one. US, obsolete
- 7 Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
- 1 To behave like a hipster.
"But it was a white staff member of a reform school who gave Claude Brown the first notion he ever had that there might be something in the world besides dope and sex and hipstering."
- 2 To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.
"Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone."
Etymology
From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.
From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.
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