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hipsterism

noun

Etymology

From hipster + -ism.

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

Definitions

  1. hipness

    • Neighborhood Committees and Social Organizations take cops to dinner with free discussions offering discriminating insights into hipsterism, black militancy, and drug culture.
    • Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.

  2. Something typical of a hipster.

The neighborhood

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