hip·ster

1 [hip-ster]
noun Slang.
1.
a person who is hip.
3.
a person, especially during the 1950s, characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships.

Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; hip4 + -ster

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hip·ster

2 [hip-ster]
noun
1.
hipsters, Chiefly British, hiphugger ( def 2 ).
2.
Often, hipsters. hiphugger underpants for women and girls.

Origin:
1960–65; hip1 + -ster

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hipster (ˈhɪpstə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  slang, rare
 a.  an enthusiast of modern jazz
 b.  an outmoded word for hippy
2.  (modifier) (of trousers) cut so that the top encircles the hips

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hipster definition

[ˈhɪpstɚ]
  1. n.
    a youth of the 1950s, characterized by an interest in jazz and cool things. : Were the hipsters the ones with the big shoulder pads?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
It's about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes
  hipsters desperately disavow the label.
Less traditional are the bare expanse of taut stomach, the skin-tight hipster
  trousers and the six-inch stilettos.
If so, their heads are going to explode when hipster fashion invades.
Not the hipster generation, so much, but the younger generation of businessmen.
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