: 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
Recent Examples on the Web
The festival was the brainchild of a pack of white Memphis hipsters, including famed producer/sideman Jim Dickinson, singer Nancy Jeffries (from a local band called the Insect Trust), and critic/musician Robert Palmer—who is Augusta’s father.
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Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 9 July 2024
Just as the undershirt disappeared until Tony Soprano suddenly emerged wearing one week after week, wooing even Miss Reykjavik with his retro New Jersey style, so the hat was gone until the Williamsburg hipsters brought it back.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
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.
—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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Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 9 July 2024
Just as the undershirt disappeared until Tony Soprano suddenly emerged wearing one week after week, wooing even Miss Reykjavik with his retro New Jersey style, so the hat was gone until the Williamsburg hipsters brought it back.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
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.
—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 27 Jul. 2024.
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