Hipster, or Gay?

Ever have a hard time telling if the man you see across the bar from you at your favorite artisan coffee house is a hispter, or gay?

Ever have a hard time telling if the woman listening to alternative music sitting on a park bench with her 30 year old bike next to her is a hipster, or gay?

Ever see people sitting around trying to distinguish those walking by: hipster, or gay?

A game commonly played by residents of urban settings, college campuses, and visitors to hipster enclaves. The right answer is never what you think it is.

"See that guy with the super tight jeans and the American Apparel deep v-neck tee? Is he a hipster, or is he gay?"

"See that girl with the turtle shell glasses with no lenses and four scarves? Is she a hipster, or is she a lesbian?"

"Is he really wearing a fedora, flannel, fingerless gloves, sunglasses, and sporting some very interesting facial hair? Hipster, or gay?

by TheJungle327 March 4, 2011

Hipstercrite

A person who is both a hipster and a hypocrite. This person likes to put up the appearance of being progressive, radical, artistic and/or bohemian. However, they don't really adhere to the principals they want people to think they espouse. For instance, a hipstercrite could say they hate George Bush because he doesn't care about poor people or minorities, and yet at the same time live in an expensive condo that gentrifies the surrounding poor minorities' neighborhood, ultimately driving housing costs up and existing communities out.

Hipstercrites do not understand that their own actions conflict with their supposed political and social opinions. Mostly, they hold these opinions to be trendy.

Hipstercrites are often young people in college or fresh out of college who are living off their parents' money.

Other examples:

Wearing an outfit that appears to be from a thrift store, which actually cost hundreds of dollars at Urban Outfitters.

Living in a condo in East Austin that your parents bought for you as an investment.

Traveling to countries and feeling proud of their travels. Again, the money for these travels and their lifestyle comes from their parents.

Participating in an unpaid internship yet not having a job.

Person A: "Elena really is doing a lot for society! She works for a non-profit and gets to travel all the time."

Person B: "Nah, she's not doing shit for society. She's just a hipstercrite."

by JuliaHatesHipsters June 19, 2008

hipster goth

Someone who tries to be hip by dressing gothic, with skinny black jeans, shirts, ties, waistcoats and sometimes make-up. Frequently found around Shoreditch, Hoxton and Camden in London. Listens to such music as The Horrors, S.C.U.M, Ulterior and Howling Bells, as well as such classic goth bands as The Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees. Often smokes Black Devils: black, chocolate-flavoured cigarettes.

Cynic: "Look at those fucking lame-ass hipster goths! They think they're so cool and alternative, but really they're just following a trend!"

Admirer: "Look at those übercool hipster goths! They're so fashionable and so nonchalant!"

by HallOfMirrors April 3, 2009

hipster chick

50% Feminists. 50% Sex Freaks.

So I met this hipster chick at the bar last night. She was blowing me off until I brought up Passion Pit and The National. Then she was just blowing me.

by TomKVideo September 29, 2009

Hipster

This is urban dictionary, so the blunt definition of a hipster is a loser. Yet another group of clones who pride themselves on non-conformism, much like emo and scene kids. These people are snobs who normally talk with an upward inflection. Although they do have a knack with obscure music and literature, the fact remains that the only reason they know about these things is out of conformity. They dress, talk and believe the same way. Agnostic spirituality or Atheism and liberalism are mandatory. Always very thin, I have not once seen a fat or athletic hipster. Very open minded, indeed. Spineless cowards, they will not raise a fist to save their girlfriend from a rapist; and if they did they would be mutilated for it. Worthless intellectual snobs with no real depth or substance. Nothing but a lot of hot air and big words.

I don't conform. I fight against the pangs of mainstream culture by joining another one. I and my friends are intellectually diverse, believing in basically the same things, rejecting clone-wear, by dressing the same and pretending to be classy snobs while the real classy snobs laugh at us from their BMW's and Porches, all 120 lbs of us. I'm a hipster.

by TruthREALLYHurts April 16, 2011

hipsterception

The realization a hipster comes to when he/she realizes that being hipster is WAY to mainstream, resulting in a paradox.

"Dude, being a hipster is way to mainstream. A true hipster would have stopped being a hipster by now. It's like... hipsterception!"

by frankalator March 7, 2012

Hipster Bullshit

Whatever music popular bands such as fun. make. That. Right there. Is mainstream hipster bullshit.

A Dose of Buckley pronounced fun.'s single, "We Are Young," as hipster bullshit on his video Worst Songs of 2012. The iconic term "hipster bullshit" came from him.

by The Pizza Delivery Girl February 5, 2013