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hipster
- /ˈhɪp.stə/ UK
- /ˈhɪp.stɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From hip + -ster. 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.
noun hipsters · hepster
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A person who is hip, being 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 […]
Similar: hepster, hippie, trendite, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist, fashionista, hepcat, hipster, sophisto, snappy dresser
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A person who rejects mainstream culture; an anti-conformist.
Similar: hepster, hippie, trendite, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist, fashionista, hepcat, hipster, sophisto, snappy dresser
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A member of a Bohemian counterculture.
Near-synonym: hippie
Similar: hippie
- An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip. Near-synonym: hippie
- A follower of a fashion style prevalent in the 2000s and 2010s, typically associated with old-fashioned clothing, thick-rimmed glasses, and beards for men, and with alternative music and trendy food and drink. The 2005 UK TV series Nathan Barley is seen today as the proto-hipster parody. It was recently described by The Guardian as follows, '10 years on, it looks more like a documentary about the future.'
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A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
(from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
Similar: vial villain, gentleman from Kentucky
- A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.
- Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
verb hipsters · hipstering · hipstered · hepster
- 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.
- 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cat, trendy, trendite, cool kid, trendoid, hypebeast, fashionmonger, fashion victim, trendwhore, scene kid, yupster, groovy, geekster, hype beast, hickster, hippie
Translations
Every language
noun person interested in the latest trends
| Español | modernillo, gafapasta, hipster, hípster |
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| 日本語 | ヒップスター Hippusutā |
| Português | hipster |
| Deutsch | Hipster, Hipsterin |
| Ελληνικά | χίπστερ chípster |
| Русский | хи́пстер xípstɛr |
verb to behave like a hipster
| Español | hipsterizarse |
|---|
verb to dress like a hipster
| Español | hipsterizarse |
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Talk about this word "hipster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hipster. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hipster. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hipster "hipster." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hipster.Cite this
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title = {hipster},
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