hipster

Meanings

Noun

• A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
• A member of Bohemian counterculture.
• An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
• A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
• A dancer, particularly a female one.
• Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

Verb

• To behave like a hipster.
• To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.

Related

Similar words

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Origin

• 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.