Hepster

Quick meaning: Hepster is a noun meaning Dated form of hipster (“follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage”).

Meaning

Dated form of hipster (“follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage”).

Example Sentences

The scene is unemployed models and European hepsters. My friend is there. When I walk by, people fall silent. I think my friend is smiling.

“With the Beats,” he said, “there is a deliberate severance from the world, a bleak picture of the mundane and a joy in the outlandish that resonates with Generation Xers. The beatniks and today's hepsters share a shoulder-shrug at just about everything, a fashionable ennui.”

Before Brooklyn became the World Historical Hipster Hub, there were the Hepsters of Harlem. And well before there was an Urban Dictionary for every last nuance of non-standard English, the bandleader and amateur linguist Cab Calloway cataloged some of the unique speech of the 1930s and ’40s in his Hepster’s Dictionary.

Word Forms

• hepsters

Synonyms for hepster

Depending on context, synonyms include trendy, voguie, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cat, solid.

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