Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is exceptionally aware of or interested in the latest trends and tastes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A person who is hip{2}, a..

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  • noun A member of Bohemian counterculture.
  • noun An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
  • noun Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

Etymologies

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hip +‎ -ster

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Examples

  • Etymologists are uncertain about exactly when the word hippie came into existence, although it is clearly a variation of the term hipster, which had been in use during the forties, in reference to devotees of jazz music.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • Etymologists are uncertain about exactly when the word hippie came into existence, although it is clearly a variation of the term hipster, which had been in use during the forties, in reference to devotees of jazz music.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • To which Harris responds:His observation that the term hipster itself emerged from jazz and the counterculture is instructive.

    Such Jews are not hipsters 2009

  • Better than being a Willy-style trustafarian drug-addled fixie-luvin 'dirty boy band hipster who don't know where the term hipster originated (Beat generation; jazz).

    Waylon Lewis: Money Magazine Names Eco-Hipsterless Louisville, Colorado Best Place to Live 2009

  • The term hipster was coined by Harry Gibson in 1940, and was used during the 1940s and 1950s to describe jazz performers.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • The smartest thing I've read recently about the use of the term hipster is this, from

    GigaOM Network 2010

  • I think you're confusing the term hipster with hippie.

    blogTO 2009

  • People You Meet: Dan Cooper I think you're confusing the term hipster with hippie ....

    blogTO 2009

  • I think you're confusing the term hipster with hippie.

    blogTO 2009

  • Part of the problem with the term hipster is that no one wants to be associated with it.

    Waldo Jaquith - “Hipsters: The dead end of western civilization.” 2008

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  • the collective is 'a fixie of hipsters'

    October 3, 2007

  • My Hipster PDA, a mere palimpsest after having been laundered, has littered my warddrobe with infinitessimal informational detritus.

    April 8, 2008

  • "Take a stroll down the street in any major North American or European city and you’ll be sure to see a speckle of fashion-conscious twentysomethings hanging about and sporting a number of predictable stylistic trademarks: skinny jeans, cotton spandex leggings, fixed-gear bikes, vintage flannel, fake eyeglasses and a keffiyeh – initially sported by Jewish students and Western protesters to express solidarity with Palestinians, the keffiyeh has become a completely meaningless hipster cliché fashion accessory."

    - Douglas Haddow, 'Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization', adbusters.org, 29 Jul 2008.

    July 31, 2008

  • Weirdnet, you are so far out of date that your meaning is the opposite of the current.

    July 31, 2008

  • And she aspired to perfection as a hipster

    And she asked me

    "How should I wear my problem hair

    My dirty, no good problem hair?"

    She asked me

    I blew it

    I knew it.

    (Perfection as a hipster, by God Help the Girl)

    January 5, 2010

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    August 18, 2011