# hipster
## English
### Alternative forms

* (A person interested in the latest trends): hepster (dated)

### Etymology

From 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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈhɪp.stə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈhɪp.stɚ/

### Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)
* A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
    Synonyms: hepster, trendite; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person
** c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239,
    I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]
** 1991 August 10, Chris Nealon, “Get A Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 10:Clare grapples with the idea that she, a well-dressed city hipster, will soon be in the boondocks raising a child with two men who are as much in love with each other as with her: "I'm not this unusual," she stammers. "It's just my hair."
** 2008 June 16, Ben Ratliff, “Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma”, in The New York Times‎:Donald Fagen and Walter Becker seem like the kind of late-1960s hypercerebral born-cynical East Coast hipsters who are often found valorizing authenticity in aesthetic expression.
* A member of Bohemian counterculture.
* An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
    Synonym: hepcat
* (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.

#### Synonyms

(Prohibition):
* vial villain
* gentleman from Kentucky (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

#### Coordinate terms

(Prohibition):
* bootlegging (n.)
* bootleg (v.) (from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking)

#### Derived terms

* blipster
* hipsterdom
* hipsterfication
* hipsterfy
* hipster glasses
* hipsterific
* hipsterish
* hipsterism
* hipstery
* hiptard
* yupster

#### See also

(Prohibition):
* suffer from hip disease (v.)

### Verb

hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)
* To behave like a hipster.
** 2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139: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.
** 2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity, →ISBN: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.
** 2017, The Rough Guide to the USA, →ISBN: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.
* To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.
** 2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, →ISBN, page 135:Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.
** 2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell, →ISBN:I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.
** 2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town, →ISBN:Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up...

#### Translations
### References

* 1 2 3 4 Merriam-Webster, "The Original Hipsters"
* 1 2 3 4 The Gentleman's Gazette, "The Hip Flask", 2018 June 29, Marcello Borges

### Anagrams

* Pithers, perisht, prehist.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hipster.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ip.stœʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)
* hipster

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

hipster
* inflection of hip:
** strong/mixed nominative masculine singular superlative degree
** strong genitive/dative feminine singular superlative degree
** strong genitive plural superlative degree

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English hipster.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxip.stɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ipstɛr
* Syllabification: hip‧ster

### Noun

hipster m pers (female equivalent hipsterka)
* hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
* hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)

#### Derived terms

* hipsterski

### Further reading

* hipster in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* hipster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hipster.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁi.pis.teʁ/ [ˈhi.pis.teh], /ˈʁips.teʁ/ [ˈhips.teh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁi.pis.teʁ/ [ˈhi.pis.teh], /ˈʁips.teʁ/ [ˈhips.teh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈʁi.pis.teɾ/ [ˈhi.pis.teɾ], /ˈʁips.teɾ/ [ˈhips.teɾ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁi.piʃ.teʁ/ [ˈχi.piʃ.teχ], /ˈʁipʃ.teʁ/ [ˈχipʃ.teχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁips.teɻ/ [ˈhips.teɻ], /ˈʁi.pis.teɻ/ [ˈhi.pis.teɻ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈips.tɛɾ/

### Noun

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)
* hipster (person interested in the latest trends)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hipster.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈxibsteɾ/ [ˈxiβ̞s.t̪eɾ]
* Rhymes: -ibsteɾ

### Noun

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters or hipster)
* hipster
    Synonyms: gafapasta, modernillo
** 2014 October 28, Ferran Bono, quoting Víctor Lenore, ““Entre los ‘hipsters’, ‘Clandestino’ de Manu Chao fue despreciado””, in El País‎, Madrid, →ISSN:Manu Chao es una figura estigmatizada por los hipsters por vulgar.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2021 April 21, Sergio C. Fanjul, “Los ‘punkis’ y la mastina”, in El País‎:Yo creo que Sua ya es más como una hipster treintañera que no puede dárselas de neorrural: ama los coches, teme a las ovejas, ya le vale a la perra – dice Jimena mientras tira fuerte de la correa.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

#### Derived terms

* hipsterismo

## Swedish
### Noun

hipster c
* a hipster (member of a Bohemian counterculture)
* (historical) a hipster (jazz aficionado)

#### Declension
### References

* hipster in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* hipster in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)