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hipster glasses

hipster glasses noun: plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.

hipster glasses: plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by...
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Noun

hipster glasses pl (plural only)

  1. (dated, plural, plural-only) Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.
    • “I think we totally need to talk about the StarMart thing,” a girl with chunky hipster glasses and a blunt, black bob says, and rapidly the rest of the council agrees.2012, Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me, Viking, →ISBN
    • He had these watery blue eyes behind a pair of black hipster glasses and was holding a fancy camera.2012, Emily Ecton, Project Jackalope, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 79
    Synonyms:
    nerd glasses

Synonyms of hipster glasses

Questions about hipster glasses

What does hipster glasses mean?
Hipster glasses means plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.
What part of speech is hipster glasses?
Hipster glasses is a noun.

Words near hipster glasses in the dictionary

  1. Hipsher
  2. Hipshers
  3. hipshot
  4. hipster
  5. hipster effect
  6. hipster glasses
  7. hipsterati
  8. hipsterdom
  9. hipstered
  10. hipsterfication
  11. hipsterfy

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