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plural hipsters
A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. quotations examples
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. examples
An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip. examples
(US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
(US, obsolete, 1930s) A dancer, particularly a female one.
Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level. examples
third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered
To behave like a hipster. quotations examples
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, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139
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.
2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity
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.
2017, The Rough Guide to the USA
To dress or decorate in a hip fashion. quotations examples
Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.
2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, page 135
I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.
2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell
Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up...
2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town