hipster

English

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hipster

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (A person interested in the latest trends): hepster (dated)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪp.stə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪp.stɚ/

Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)

1. A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
   • 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."

2. A member of Bohemian counterculture.
3. An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
4. (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
5. (US, obsolete, 1930s) A dancer, particularly a female one.
6. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

Synonyms

(Prohibition):

• vial villain
• gentleman from Kentucky (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

Coordinate terms

(Prohibition):

• bootlegging (n.)
• bootleg (v.) (from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

(Prohibition):

• suffer from hip disease (v.)

Verb

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

1. 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.

   • 2017, The Rough Guide to the USA, →ISBN:

     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.

2. 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.

   • 2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell, →ISBN:

     I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.

   • 2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, →ISBN:

     Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up...

References

Anagrams

• Pithers, perisht, prehist.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ip.stœʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)

1. hipster

German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Adjective

hipster

1. inflection of hip:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular superlative degree
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular superlative degree
   3. strong genitive plural superlative degree

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

hipster

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxip.stɛr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ipstɛr
• Syllabification: hip‧ster

Noun

hipster m pers (female equivalent hipsterka)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
2. hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• hipster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hipster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hipster.

Pronunciation

Noun

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxibsteɾ/
• Rhymes: -ibsteɾ

Noun

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters or hipster)

1. hipster

   Synonyms: gafapasta, modernillo

   • 2014 October 28, Ferran Bono, quoting Víctor Lenore, ““Entre los ‘hipsters’, ‘Clandestino’ de Manu Chao fue despreciado””, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:

     Manu Chao es una figura estigmatizada por los hipsters por vulgar.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Derived terms

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

hipster

Wikipedia ^sv

Noun

hipster c

1. a hipster (member of a Bohemian counterculture)
2. (historical) a hipster (jazz aficionado)

Declension

References

• hipster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hipster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)