hipster1

[hip-ster] /ˈhɪp stər/
noun, Slang.
1.
a person who is hip.
2.
hepcat.
3.
a person, especially during the 1950s, characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships.
Origin
1935-40, Americanism; hip4 + -ster

hipster2

[hip-ster] /ˈhɪp stər/
noun
1.
hipsters, Chiefly British, hiphugger (def 2).
2.
Often, hipsters. hiphugger underpants for women and girls.
Origin
1960-65; hip1 + -ster
Examples from the web for hipster
  • Your feet don't care that heritage hiking boots are second only to beards in today's hipster wardrobe.
  • Less traditional are the bare expanse of taut stomach, the skin-tight hipster trousers and the six-inch stilettos.
  • Out: the snarly parking valet, the too-cool-to-notice-you hostess and the tipsy-hipster pool scene.
  • The reclaiming of forgotten technology is every hipster's siren song.
  • Melting down used plastic to make the next hipster tote.
  • Your hipster messenger bag holds all your precious gear-and that is precisely the problem.
  • But these hipster investors have some pretty valid insight.
  • It's decadently dazzling in a heroin hipster sort of way.
  • Once housing the city's main wholesale food market, it retains an earthy air with many cabarets and hipster nightclubs.
  • It's about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes hipsters desperately disavow the label.
British Dictionary definitions for hipster

hipster

/ˈhɪpstə/
noun
1.
(slang, rare)
  1. an enthusiast of modern jazz
  2. an outmoded word for hippy1
2.
(modifier) (of trousers) cut so that the top encircles the hips
Word Origin and History for hipster
n.

1941, "one who is hip;" from hip (adj.) + -ster. Meaning "low-rise" in reference to pants or skirt is from 1962; so called because they ride on the hips rather than the waist (cf. hiphuggers). Related: Hipsters.

Slang definitions & phrases for hipster

hipster

noun
  1. hepcat, hepster, hip cat
  2. beatnik, hippie (1941+)