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(A person interested in the latest trends):hepster(dated)[1]
Etymology
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.[1]
c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,
I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts
1991 August 10, Chris Nealon, “Get A Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 10:
Clare grapples with the idea that she, a well-dressed city hipster, will soon be in the boondocks raising a child with two men who are as much in love with each other as with her: "I'm not this unusual," she stammers. "It's just my hair."
2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in The New York Times:
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.
hipster (third-person singular simple presenthipsters, present participlehipstering, simple past and past participlehipstered)
To behave like a hipster.
2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139:
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.
2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, →ISBN:
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.
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.
To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.
2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, →ISBN, page 135:
Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.
2021 April 21, Sergio C. Fanjul, “Los ‘punkis’ y la mastina”, in El País:
Yo creo que Sua ya es más como una hipster treintañera que no puede dárselas de neorrural: ama los coches, teme a las ovejas, ya le vale a la perra – dice Jimena mientras tira fuerte de la correa.
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