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hipster
noun- a devotee of jazz and the jazz lifestyle US, 1940
- They too wore dark glasses, their hats were set high upon their heads, the brims turned down. A couple of hipsters, I thought, just as they spoke. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 484, 1947
- Well, she kept yelling across the room to some hipster, “How about a fix!” — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 7, 1952
- I learned the new hipster vocabulary. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 120, 1953
- I talk to this Spade hipster who knows everyone in the Village. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 169, 20 December 1956
- We saw a horrible sight in the bar: a white hipster fairy had come in wearing a Hawaiian shirt and was asking the big drummer if he could sit in. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 200, 1957
- “Give it to me,” said Frost, “and cut that hipster gab. It’s making me sick.” — Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree, p. 145, 1958
- [F]uck Norman Mailer he’s trying to get in the act. Why wasn’t he a hipster when it counted? — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 184, 28 October 1958: Letter to Allen Ginsberg
- Hipster came first as a word–it was used at least as long ago as 1951 or 1952, and was mentioned in the New Directions blurb on Chandler Brossard’s Who Walk in Darkness. — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 372, 1959
- It was ‘round bout midnight, hipster time, a magic hour in the cool world, when things got around to taking place, if they were going to happen at all. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 31, 1961
- I took three of those twenty-five-cent sepia-toned, while-you-wait pictures of myself, posed the way “hipsters” wearing their zoots would “cool it”[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 52, 1964
- I will be out of touch. I am 39 and already I can’t relate to Fabian. There’s nothing sadder than an old hipster. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 35, 1965
- As soon as it appeared, the hipsters and hipstrixes started arriving in droves, loping or skulking up the stone stairs to the beat of the music gyrating from within. — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 70, 1998
- a person at the stylish edge of fashionable US
A contemporary variation. - One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. — Robert Lanham, The Hipster Handbook, p. 8, 2002
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