Meaning

7 senses
  1. A person who is hip, being 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 […]

    Hipster, Hipsterin

    хи́пстерxípstɛr

  2. A person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.

    (broadly)A person who rejects mainstream culture; an anti-conformist.

    someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

  3. A member of a Bohemian counterculture.

    Near-synonym: hippie

  4. An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.

    Near-synonym: hippie

  5. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

  6. (US, obsolete)A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).

    (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

  7. (US, historical, obsolete)A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Tom is a hipster.

    Том — хіпстер.

    ruТом - хипстер.

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  2. The hipster was twirling his moustache.

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  3. He wants to be a hipster.

    ruОн хочет быть хипстером.

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  4. Why am I the last hipster?

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  5. The hipster rabbit refused to eat carrots.

    ruКролик-хипстер отказался есть морковь.

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Translations

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Origin

From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. i

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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