hipster
See also: Hipster
English
Alternative forms
- (A person interested in the latest trends): hepster (dated) [1]
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.[1]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɪp.stə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɪp.stɚ/
Noun
hipster (plural hipsters)
- A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
- 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 […]
- c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,
- A member of Bohemian counterculture.
- An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
- (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol). [2][1]
- (US, obsolete, 1930s) A dancer, particularly a female one.[1]
- Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
Synonyms
(Prohibition):
- vial villain [2]
- gentleman from Kentucky [2] (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
Coordinate terms
(Prohibition):
- suffer from hip disease (v.) [2]
- bootlegging (n.)
- bootleg (v.) (from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking)
Derived terms
terms derived from hipster
- blipster
- hiptard
- hipsterdom
- hipsterfication
- hipsterfy
- hipster glasses
- hipsterific
- hipsterish
- hipsterism
- hipstery
- yupster
Translations
person interested in the latest trends
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Verb
hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)
- 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.
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- 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...
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References
- Merriam-Webster, "The Original Hipsters"
- The Gentleman's Gazette, "The Hip Flask", 2018 June 29, Marcello Borges
Anagrams
- Pithers, perisht, prehist.
French
Etymology
From English hipster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ip.stœʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)
- hipster
German
Adjective
hipster
- inflection of hip:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular superlative degree
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular superlative degree
- strong genitive plural superlative degree
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English hipster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxip.stɛr/
- Rhymes: -ipstɛr
- Syllabification: hip‧ster
Noun
hipster m pers (feminine hipsterka)
- hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
- hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)
Declension
Declension of hipster
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hipster | hipsterzy |
| genitive | hipstera | hipsterów |
| dative | hipsterowi | hipsterom |
| accusative | hipstera | hipsterów |
| instrumental | hipsterem | hipsterami |
| locative | hipsterze | hipsterach |
| vocative | hipsterze | hipsterzy |
Derived terms
adjective
- hipsterski
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.
Noun
hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)
- hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English hipster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxibsteɾ/ [ˈxiβ̞s.t̪eɾ]
- Rhymes: -ibsteɾ
Noun
hipster m or f (plural hipsters or hipster)
- 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 1134-6582:
- Manu Chao es una figura estigmatizada por los hipsters por vulgar.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 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 quote)
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
- hipsterismo