: 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
Dusty Booze Imagine an Indiana Jones tale — if the golden idol was a bottle of post-Prohibition bourbon and the role of gigantic, skull-crushing boulder was played by rampaging hipsters on a Pappy Van Winkle hunt.
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Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
Movies like Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation, Aaron Katz’s Quiet City, Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture and Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel formed the crux of a New York film scene populated by hipsters and stretching from downtown Manhattan to Park Slope.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2024
The Swedes will be the hockey hipsters’ pick to win.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
These hipsters are made from soft, cool nylon with plenty of spandex for stretch.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
Twenty eight years later, Sublime t-shirts can still be seen on celebrities, hipsters, kids and at big box retailers.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
Scott Pilgrim was originally a series of comics by Canadian writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley that riffed on the tropes of nerd genres (fighting games, superhero stories, indie rock) to highlight the ups and downs of life as a young urban hipster.
—EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
That’s not a concern with this hipster from Third Love.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
Low-rise streetscapes and communities of artists and hipsters can make parts of Melbourne feel like Brooklyn.
—Simbarashe Cha, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
Movies like Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation, Aaron Katz’s Quiet City, Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture and Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel formed the crux of a New York film scene populated by hipsters and stretching from downtown Manhattan to Park Slope.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2024
The Swedes will be the hockey hipsters’ pick to win.
—Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
These hipsters are made from soft, cool nylon with plenty of spandex for stretch.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
Twenty eight years later, Sublime t-shirts can still be seen on celebrities, hipsters, kids and at big box retailers.
—Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2024
Scott Pilgrim was originally a series of comics by Canadian writer/artist Bryan Lee O’Malley that riffed on the tropes of nerd genres (fighting games, superhero stories, indie rock) to highlight the ups and downs of life as a young urban hipster.
—EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
That’s not a concern with this hipster from Third Love.
—Barbara Bellesi Zito, Travel + Leisure, 24 Jan. 2024
Low-rise streetscapes and communities of artists and hipsters can make parts of Melbourne feel like Brooklyn.
—Simbarashe Cha, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Hipster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hipster. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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