hipster

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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 […]
   • 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.
   • 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."
2. 2

   A member of the Bohemian counterculture.

3. 3

   An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves 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!”
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   1. 4

      A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).

      • (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
   2. 5

      A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.

   3. 6

      Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

   4. 7

      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.
      • 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.
   5. 8

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

The neighborhood

• neighborsuffer from hip disease