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hipstering

hipstering is the present participle and gerund of hipster.

Meaning of hipster

Verb

hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)

  1. (informal, intransitive) 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
  2. (informal, intransitive) 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

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Questions about hipstering

What is hipstering the present participle and gerund of?
Hipstering is the present participle and gerund of hipster.

Words near hipstering in the dictionary

  1. hipstered
  2. hipsterfication
  3. hipsterfy
  4. hipsterfying
  5. hipsterific
  6. hipstering
  7. hipsterish
  8. hipsterishly
  9. hipsterism
  10. hipsterisms
  11. hipsterization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hipstering (page history and authors); hipster (page history and authors). 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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