Hipster

Quick meaning: Hipster is a noun meaning A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.

Meaning

A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.

More Meanings

1. A member of the Bohemian counterculture.
2. An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.
3. (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
4. (US, obsolete, historical) A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.
5. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
6. (informal, intransitive) To behave like a hipster.
7. (informal, intransitive) To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.

Example Sentences

(from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

The other people in the urine-odored hall stood silently waiting for the hipster to disappear between the tables, to be dropped there by the stocky white detective.

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker seem like the kind of late-1960s hypercerebral born-cynical East Coast hipsters who are often found valorizing authenticity in aesthetic expression.

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.

Word Forms

• hipsters
• hipstering
• hipstered

Synonyms for hipster

Depending on context, synonyms include hepster, trendite, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cat, trendy, trendite, trendoid, hypebeast, fashionmonger.

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