: a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns (as in jazz or fashion)
Examples of hipster in a Sentence
a movie that appeals equally to hipsters and suburbanites
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Kim’s Video Kim’s Video tells the quirky true story of how New York dry cleaner Youngman Kim founded Kim’s Video, a downtown institution that inspired a generation of cinephiles, filmmakers, and hipsters with its catalogue of 55,000 independent, obscure and bootlegged films.
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Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
Children and adults, hipsters and nature-nerds, all brought together by something bigger than us all.
—Levi Mandel, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2024
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Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
Children and adults, hipsters and nature-nerds, all brought together by something bigger than us all.
—Levi Mandel, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 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 29 May. 2024.
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