hipster n.
1. (orig. US black) one who espouses the fashionable Bohemian stance of the period; the essence was a conscious downplaying of emotional display, a stance poss. facilitated by heroin addiction.
Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 27 Aug. 11/1: The real sender came when he booted ‘After You’re Gone’ [...] I thought I was a hepster but I found myself padding the ground pads along with the rest. | ||
Mister Jelly Roll (1952) 233: Jelly Roll now had backing in his disputes with the ‘hipsters’ and ‘hot jive boys’. | ||
Junkie (1966) 57: A young Italian hipster named Ray used to come to the bar every day. | ||
Teen-Age Mafia 15: Little brats who thought they were hipsters when they didn’t even know which end was up. | ||
Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 72: A genuine hipster of the female variety. | ||
How to Talk Dirty 5: My vocabulary [...] is usually flavored with the jargon of the hipster. | ||
No Beast So Fierce 85: I watched him depart [...] one arm swinging exaggeratedly, shoulders rolling in a hipster’s stroll. | ||
Brown’s Requiem 72: ‘Shake it, daddy, what else do you want to know?’ he said. Besides suffering from terminal cancer, he was suffering from terminal hipsterism. | ||
Amaze Your Friends (2019) 14: Max Perkal and his band of would-be hipsters [...] accounted for about seventy per cent of the total demand for Indian hemp. | (con. late 1950s)||
Yes We have No 31: He seems the complete jazz hipster, all grace and irony. | ||
Guardian Guide 19–25 Feb. 6: It’s a password to other hipsters that he has records by Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. |
2. in 21st century use, a liberal, culturally orientated youth cult for those under 30, often in creative occupations; seen as the current evocation of middle-class counter-cultural aspirations and fashions and praised or derided accordingly .
in Urban Dict. 🌐 Hipsters a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. | ||
On the Bro’d 87: [L]ong-haired, lame-ass annoying hipsters straight off planes from Brooklyn. | ||
Eve. Standard (London) 4 Apr. 44/3: The wiry, T-shirted creative has the look of a hipster. | ||
Blacktop Wasteland 202: A week ago, he was snorting coke off some hipster chick’s titty’. |