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blipster

blipster noun: an ethnically black (African-American) hipster.

Noun

blipster (plural blipsters)

  1. An ethnically black (African-American) hipster.
    • You get the sense that if Jimi Hendrix were to show up in Echo Park today, he’d be publicly mocked in a style section piece on blipsters for wearing a feathered fedora.2009 June 29, Robert Lanham, “Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher”, in The Dallas Morning News
    • Blipsters hate hip-hop unless they are spoofing it (Das Racist), turning it into a mash-up (Danger Mouse), updating it to sound more techno-punk (Santigold, Ninjasonik), or getting it from an unlikely source (e.g., Swedish songstress Lykke Li covering A Tribe Called Quest).2011, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 182

Forms of blipster

pluralblipsters

Origin of blipster

Blend of black + hipster, influenced by blip + -ster.

Questions about blipster

What does blipster mean?
Blipster means an ethnically black (African-American) hipster.
What part of speech is blipster?
Blipster is a noun.
What is the plural of blipster?
The plural of blipster is blipsters.

Words near blipster in the dictionary

  1. blipping
  2. blipping out
  3. blippy
  4. blips
  5. blips out
  6. blipster
  7. blipsters
  8. blipvert
  9. blipverts
  10. blirt
  11. blirts

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