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In some senses, hipster is marked as obsolete, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
big, fantastic, last, local, new, outside, soon, sophisticated
VERB + HIPSTER
become, bought, point
HIPSTER + NOUN
cafe, coffee, haircut, music, rabbit, socks, subculture, wannabes
PREP.
in, on
noun
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 […]
Clare grapples with the idea that she, a well-dressed city hipster, will soon be in the boondocks raising a child with two men who are as much in love with each other as with her: "I'm not this unusual," she stammers. "It's just my hair."
A member of Bohemian counterculture.
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!”
A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
A dancer, particularly a female one.
verb
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.
The hipsters are hipstering, the businessmen are businessing, the parents are parenting, the children are childrening, and the black teenagers are calling each other niggers.
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.
I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.
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 […]
WiktionaryClare grapples with the idea that she, a well-dressed city hipster, will soon be in the boondocks raising a child with two men who are as much in love with each other as with her: "I'm not this unusua
WiktionaryDonald 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.
WiktionaryBut 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.
WiktionaryThe hipsters are hipstering, the businessmen are businessing, the parents are parenting, the children are childrening, and the black teenagers are calling each other niggers.
WiktionaryIf you're up for a night of hipstering, this is a good spot to begin - a grungy joint that nevertheless hosts a solid varying roster of blues, funk, reggae, rock and indie bands.
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In some senses, hipster is marked as obsolete, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.