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blipster

noun

Etymology

Blend of black + hipster, influenced by blip + -ster.

  1. derived from *ḱewb-✻
  2. inherited from *hupiz✻
  3. inherited from hype
  4. inherited from hipe
  5. formed as hipster — “hip + -ster”
  6. compounded as blipster — “black + hipster”

Definitions

  1. An ethnically black (African-American) hipster.

    • You get the sense that if Jimi Hendrix were to show up in Echo Park today, he’d be publicly mocked in a style section piece on blipsters for wearing a feathered fedora.
    • During the first season, I wondered why Hannah and her friends didn't have at least one blipster friend or why Hannah's boss at the publishing house or one or more of the girls' love interests couldn't be an actor of color.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for blipster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA