Crossword clues for hipster
hipster
- Cool cat
- Smart cookie
- No square
- In type
- Bebop aficionado
- With-it sort
- Wearer of skinny jeans and big-rimmed glasses, perhaps
- Uber-trendy urbanite
- Trendy type often parodied on "Portlandia"
- Style appellation thrown around a lot, almost never in self-identification
- One with an ironic mustache
- One who runs a cassette-only record label, probably
- Hardly a square
- Follower of the latest fashions
- Brooklyn resident, perhaps
- He's cool
- Type who wears tight-fitting jeans and thick-rimmed glasses, maybe
- One parodied on "Portlandia"
- Daddy-o
- Trendy urbanite
- Someone who rejects the established culture
- Advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
- Trendy one
- Beatnik's cousin
- Jazz devotee
- Very trendy person
- Cool dude
- Wife leaving Jack the Lad for dedicated follower of fashion
- Like some trousers to appear hot on high priest
- Trendy person
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hipster \hip"ster\, n. [from Hip a. + -ster.] A person who is hip[2], a..
Syn: hepcat[2].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 (see hiphuggers). Related: Hipsters.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. (from earlier 20th c.) 2 A member of Bohemian counterculture. 3 An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip. 4 Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
WordNet
n. someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle [syn: hippie, hippy, flower child]
Wikipedia
Hipster may refer to:
- Hipster (contemporary subculture), composed of affluent or middle class youth
- Hipster (1940s subculture), referring to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s
- Hipster PDA, a paper-based personal organizer
- Low-rise (fashion), a style of clothing designed to sit low on, or below, the hips
- Stilyagi (film), a 2008 Russian film known as Hipsters in the English release
The hipster subculture is composed of affluent or middle class youth who reside primarily in gentrifying neighborhoods. It is broadly associated with indie and alternative music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility, vintage and thrift store-bought clothing, generally progressive political views, organic and artisanal foods, and alternative lifestyles. The subculture typically consists of white millennials living in urban areas. It has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior".
The term in its current usage first appeared in the 1990s and became particularly prominent in the late 2000s and early 2010s, being derived from the term used to describe earlier movements in the 1940s. Members of the subculture typically do not self-identify as hipsters, and the word hipster is often used as a pejorative to describe someone who is pretentious, overly trendy or effete. Some scholars contend that the contemporary hipster is a "marketplace myth" that has a complex, two-way relationship with the worldview and value system of indie-oriented consumers.
In Rob Horning's April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters, he states that the hipster might be the "embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics." In a New York Times editorial, Mark Greif states that the much-cited difficulty in analyzing the term stems from the fact that any attempt to do so provokes universal anxiety, since it "calls everyone's bluff".
Hipster or hepcat, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes.
Usage examples of "hipster".
As she was leaving the jail where she had visited her brother, a Five Street homegirl, Rooty-Too, was snatched-kidnapped-by other Goobers, the Hanging Hipsters, a rival group within the gang.
He knows scornful hipster Whitey Mydol, whose lushy Darla I have my godseye on.
The cell was packed, with tired men, unhappy men, spade cats and ofay, handsome men and warped-looking creatures, sick guys lying on their sides on the cement floor, and jaunty swinging hipsters with knees pulled up on the bench, chewing gum and laughing to themselves.
Jake bellows, and the geeks, the hipsters, the metalheads, and the drunks let out a howl of mutual joy.
This is especially true among the Marxist, Mao-Castro element -- the hipsters of the Left.
They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.
Monitoring lobby traffic was the troublemaker's troublemaker, Pisshole Pat, the chain-smoking desk clerk with the crippled arm and the motor mouth, who, from the security of his bulletproof glass cage, enjoyed harassing peers and innocents alike, his bleached eyes a reproach to naive hipsters like Perry who cultivated his tolerance out of the same dark need pushing them out to the margins here, all the good little girls and boys, lives from the womb pointed like compass needles in this damned direction, the tug of The Life, you think you're on a visit when you've really found a home.
Although we sometimes called ourselves hip or hipsters or hippies or flower children, at that time those were just names among many that seemed occasionally fitting.
He walked another half block and could see the activity on the street up ahead: tourists out walking, waiting for tables in Italian restaurants, barkers trying to lure tourists into strip clubs, sailors barhopping, hipsters smoking outside of City Lights bookstore, looking cool and literary before the next poetry slam, which would go off in a bar across the street.