: a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns (as in jazz or fashion)
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a movie that appeals equally to hipsters and suburbanites
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Ever the hipster, Vicki and her daughter went to East Nashville's Up-Down arcade bar Wednesday night for some pizza and video games and skee-ball.
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The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Denim also looks good on both presidents, hipsters [and] saints alike—denim is not going away any time soon.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Dec. 2024
For the young and upwardly mobile hipsters of Northeast L.A., the Frogtown Flea Crawl was the hot new event of their perfectly Instagrammable dreams.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
Normies called them hipsters, but real hipsters usually hated them.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Denim also looks good on both presidents, hipsters [and] saints alike—denim is not going away any time soon.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Dec. 2024
For the young and upwardly mobile hipsters of Northeast L.A., the Frogtown Flea Crawl was the hot new event of their perfectly Instagrammable dreams.
—Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
Normies called them hipsters, but real hipsters usually hated them.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for hipster
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“Hipster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hipster. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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