hepster

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English

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Etymology

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From hep +‎ -ster. First attested in print in 1938.[1]

Noun

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hepster (plural hepsters)

  1. Dated form of hipster (follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage).
    • 1996 May 5, Charlie Leduff, “My Journey Among the Blind”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      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.
    • 1997 December 11, Doreen Carvajal, “A New Generation Chases the Spirit of the Beats”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      “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.”
    • 2010 July 9, J. David Goodman, “Of Local History and Hepcats”, in New York Times City Room[3]:
      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.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Merriam-Webster, "The Original Hipsters"

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