hipster
A person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashionsA person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
Meaning
7 sensesA 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
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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
A member of a Bohemian counterculture.
Near-synonym: hippie
An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.
Near-synonym: hippie
Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
(US, obsolete)A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
(from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
(US, historical, obsolete)A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.
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Origin
From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. iFrom 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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plural: hipstersSynonyms
18 synonyms- someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle:hippiehippyflower child