OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29696

hipster

/ˈhɪp.stə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gafapasta • hipster • modernillo
A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
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:…
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 hom…
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