Sekirov Dictionary

hipster

UK /ˈhɪp.stə/US /ˈhɪp.stɚ/

noun 7
verb 2
forms 3

noun7

•
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 […] — 1954
An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.
A person who rejects mainstream culture; an anti-conformist.
A member of a Bohemian counterculture.
Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
(US, no longer used) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
(US, no longer used) A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s.

verb2

•
(informal) 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
•
(informal) 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

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