hipster
A member of the Bohemian counterculture.
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Born ~1920 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
I logged into my old Facebook and found much the same from the hipster girls from my high school.
Staten Island, Ultra Orthodox Jews, and the outer boroughs are substantial segments of NYC, it's not all Manhattan or Hipster Brooklyn despite the common perception
-8+e+τ = 1.0014671356386309, where τ is the hipster circle constant, e is Euler's number. Today = 5/5 = 1 error = 0.1467%
Nah, she's still cool, I think. I'm talking about formerly overrated indie-hipster millennial musicians. Turns out most of them were all pieces of shit.
It was suggested I have a “hipster Zorro thing” going today.
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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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A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
Hipster means: A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
hipster means: A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.. Register: neutral, standard English. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself. A formal-English equivalent (a synonym or descriptive phrase) is usually safer in writing. When in doubt, paraphrase rather than reuse the slang form.
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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.
“I logged into my old Facebook and found much the same from the hipster girls from my high school.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Staten Island, Ultra Orthodox Jews, and the outer boroughs are substantial segments of NYC, it's not all Manhattan or Hipster Brooklyn despite the common perception”
— Bluesky· May 2026“-8+e+τ = 1.0014671356386309, where τ is the hipster circle constant, e is Euler's number. Today = 5/5 = 1 error = 0.1467%”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Nah, she's still cool, I think. I'm talking about formerly overrated indie-hipster millennial musicians. Turns out most of them were all pieces of shit.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It was suggested I have a “hipster Zorro thing” going today.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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