hipster

English

Etymology

hip +‎ -ster

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪp.stə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪp.stɚ/

Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)

1. A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
   • 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 […]

2. A member of Bohemian counterculture.
3. An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
4. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

Derived terms

terms derived from hipster

• blipster
• hiptard
• hipsterdom
• hipsterfication
• hipsterfy
• hipster glasses

• hipsterific
• hipsterish
• hipsterism
• hipstery
• yupster

Translations

person interested in the latest trends

• Dutch: hipster (nl) m
• Esperanto: hipstero
• Finnish: hipsteri (fi)
• Georgian: ჰიფსტერი (hipsṭeri)
• Greek: χίπστερ (el) m or f (chípster)
• Hungarian: hipszter (hu)
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• Marathi: हिप्स्टर (hipsṭar)
• Polish: hipster (pl) m
• Portuguese: hipster (pt)
• Russian: хи́пстер (ru) m (xípstɛr)
• Spanish: modernillo m, gafapasta m or f, jípster m
• Swedish: hipster (sv) c, trendnisse c

Verb

hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)

1. To behave like a hipster.
   • 2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139:

     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.

   • 2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2017, The Rough Guide to the USA, →ISBN:

     If 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.

2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.
   • 2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, →ISBN, page 135:

     Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.

   • 2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell, →ISBN:

     I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.

   • 2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, →ISBN:

     Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up...

Anagrams

• Pithers, perisht, prehist.

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French

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m or f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)

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Spanish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈibsteɾ/ [ˈiβ̞s.t̪eɾ]

Noun

hipster m (plural hipsters or hipster)

1. hipster