hipster
/ˈhɪp.stə/US/ˈhɪp.stɚ/
hipster noun: a person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
Noun
hipster (plural hipsters)
- A person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
- I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239
- 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.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 90
- Synonyms:
- hepster, hippie, trendite, Corinthian, faddist, fashionable, fashionist, fashionista, hepcat, sophisto
- A person who rejects mainstream culture; an anti-conformist.
- A member of a Bohemian counterculture.
- Near-synonym: hippie
- Synonyms:
- hippie
- An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.
- Near-synonym: hippie
- Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine, New York, U.S., page 69
- A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
- (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
- Synonyms:
- vial villain, gentleman from Kentucky
- A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.
- Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
Verb
hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)
- 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.2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139
- The hipsters are hipstering, the businessmen are businessing, the parents are parenting, the children are childrening, and the black teenagers are calling each other niggers.2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, →ISBN
- 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.2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, →ISBN, page 135
- I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell, →ISBN
hipster meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hipster in Hindi
- हिपस्टर, हिप्स्टर
hipster in Tamil
- புதுமை விரும்பி
hipster in Marathi
- person interested in the latest trends
- हिप्स्टर hipsṭar
hipster in Urdu
- ہپسٹر, ہپسٹیر
More languagesFewer languages
- hipster in Bengali
- হিপস্টার
- hipster in Telugu
- హిప్స్టర్, హిప్స్టెర్, హిప్స్స్టర్
- hipster in Malayalam
- ഹിപ്സ്റ്റർ, ഹിപ്പ്സ്റ്റർ
- hipster in Kannada
- ಹಿಪ್ಸ್ಟರ್, ಹಿಪ್ಸ್ಟೆರ್
- hipster in Punjabi
- ਹਿੱਪਸਟਰ, ਹਿਪਸਟਰ
- hipster in Gujarati
- હિપસ્ટર, હિપ્સ્ટર
- hipster in Odia
- ହିପ୍ଷ୍ଟର, ହିପ୍ଷ୍ଟର୍, ହିପ୍ସ୍ଟର୍
- hipster in Nepali
- हिपस्टर, हिप्स्टर, हिपस्टरलाई
Examples of hipster in a sentence
- Donald Fagen and Walter Becker seem like the kind of late-1960s hypercerebral born-cynical East Coast hipsters who are often found valorizing authenticity in aesthetic expression.2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2021:
- In other words, the hipster effect is the inevitable outcome of the behavior of large numbers of people.2019 February 28, “The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same”, in MIT Technology Review, archived from the...
- If you're up for a night of hipstering, this is a good spot to begin - a grungy joint that nevertheless hosts a solid varying roster of blues, funk, reggae, rock and indie bands.2017, The Rough Guide to the USA, →ISBN:
- Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up...2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, →ISBN:
Synonyms of hipster
- hepster
- hippie
- trendite
- Corinthian
- faddist
- fashionable
- fashionista
- sophisto
- snappy dresser
- trendy
6 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- voguie
- hepcat
- vial villain
- gentleman from Kentucky
- fashionist
- swell
Forms of hipster
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hipsters |
| alternative form (dated) | hepster |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hipsters |
| present participle | hipstering |
| past participle | hipstered |
| past | hipstered |
Origin of hipster
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.
Words formed from hipster
Questions about hipster
- What does hipster mean?
- Hipster means a person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
- What is hipster in Hindi?
- Hipster in Hindi is हिपस्टर, हिप्स्टर. See Hipster meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hipster in a sentence?
- Donald Fagen and Walter Becker seem like the kind of late-1960s hypercerebral born-cynical East Coast hipsters who are often found valorizing authenticity in aesthetic expression.
- What part of speech is hipster?
- Hipster can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hipster?
- Hipster is pronounced /ˈhɪp.stə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hipster?
- The plural of hipster is hipsters.
Words near hipster in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hipster (page history and authors); hipster (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hipster (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hipster (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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