hipster

ˈhɪp.stə

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#1·7h ago

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,

Origin: From . First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·7h ago

A member of the Bohemian counterculture.

: I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts

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#3·7h ago

An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.

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.

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