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hipsters

hipsters is the plural of hipster.

hipsters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hipster.

Meaning of hipster

Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)

  1. 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
    1. (broadly, chiefly music fandom) A person who rejects mainstream culture; an anti-conformist.
  2. A member of a Bohemian counterculture.
    • Near-synonym: hippie
    Synonyms:
    hippie
  3. An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.
    • Near-synonym: hippie
    Synonyms:
    hepcat, hippie
  4. (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
    • (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
    Synonyms:
    vial villain, gentleman from Kentucky
  5. (US, historical, obsolete) A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.

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Noun

hipsters pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A female undergarment with wider side sections than conventional panties.

Questions about hipsters

What does hipsters mean?
Hipsters means a female undergarment with wider side sections than conventional panties.
What is hipsters the plural of?
Hipsters is the plural of hipster.
What part of speech is hipsters?
Hipsters is a noun.

Words near hipsters in the dictionary

  1. hipsterisms
  2. hipsterization
  3. hipsterland
  4. hipsterlike
  5. hipsterly
  6. hipsters
  7. hipsterville
  8. hipstery
  9. hipsturbia
  10. hipsturbian
  11. hipsturbias

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