People usually in their late teens or younger stages of adulthood who base their social identity around counter-culture, alternative music, the arts and social justice.
Hipsters are often seen as pretentious due to carrying with them an air of superiority while having achieved little of note personally. They like the idea of academia but contribute nothing much of value in the academic world and they like the idea of a social revolution but are generally unwilling to risk their usually comfortable lifestyles to achieve this.
Hipster identity is usually based around rejection of the mainstream and ironic use of mainstream fashions that have fallen out of style. Certain types of clothing and fashion accessories have actually come back into style as a result of popularisation by hipsters - they fail to see the irony in this.
Hipsters are often seen as pretentious due to carrying with them an air of superiority while having achieved little of note personally. They like the idea of academia but contribute nothing much of value in the academic world and they like the idea of a social revolution but are generally unwilling to risk their usually comfortable lifestyles to achieve this.
Hipster identity is usually based around rejection of the mainstream and ironic use of mainstream fashions that have fallen out of style. Certain types of clothing and fashion accessories have actually come back into style as a result of popularisation by hipsters - they fail to see the irony in this.
Look at the top definition for hipsters on Urban Dictionary. How much of a pretentious ass does someone have to be to write paragraph after paragraph of such self-aggrandising nonsense?
by StopBeingPlebs September 30, 2016
Get the hipstermug. A hipster lives off of coffee. He or she is like a mystery that you really want to uncover. Male hipsters look like Fancy lumberjacks (sometimes with man buns) Female hipsters wear over sized sweaters, combat boots, messy buns or complicated braids and nerd glasses. Everyone secretly wants to be a hipster.
by weathergirl December 27, 2015
Get the Hipstermug. A person that knows all the new trends. A fancy type person that wears fancy jackets, fancy shoes, and fancy pants. A favorite alcoholic beverage for a hipster is a Moscow Mule.
Bartender: What would you like to drink?
Asian Hipster Girl: I'll take a fancy Moscow Mule to match my fancy jacket and fancy jeans. Thank you.
Asian Hipster Girl: I'll take a fancy Moscow Mule to match my fancy jacket and fancy jeans. Thank you.
by badfish415 January 14, 2016
Get the hipstermug. Modern day version of a fucking hippie. Believes in starting a GoFundMe if money is an issue, believes in group vacations because of lack of funds to take a normal vacation, voted democratic, whines about high prices in urban real estate, asks how he/she/it can make a difference and seeks out employment accordingly. Constantly making plans for "drinks."
by Josh513 November 25, 2016
Get the Hipstermug. One who remembers the time when the search term "urban outfitters" appeared in front of "urban dictionary" when searching "urban" on Google.
Hipster: Hey remember 3 or more years ago when urban dictionary wasnt that popular.
Average guy: Hurr, no, I just found out about it today.
Average guy: Hurr, no, I just found out about it today.
by HAWAllAN December 3, 2013
Get the Hipstermug. based on observation it is a person, generally white, anywhere from their early 20s to 40s that has come "slumming" back into the inner city because its now cool to come back into the "neighborhood" (another way of saying its safe for androgynous white people), most likely via a bicycle, to show everyone how cool they are by practically all wearing the same square rim glasses and pants so tight their testicles (or ovaries) are literally split in half. this is perhaps why most of them are complete assholes.
casual onlooker 1: Is that guy alright?
casual onlooker 2: which guy?
casual onlooker 1: The anorexic looking one.
casual onlooker 2: who?
casual onlooker 1: That guy (pointing)...the one on the schwinn roadster with the square rim glasses...dear god it looks like he's got a testicle in each pant pocket.
casual onlooker 2: that's a guy?
casual onlooker 1: i think he's one of those "hipsters"?
casual onlooker 2: which guy?
casual onlooker 1: The anorexic looking one.
casual onlooker 2: who?
casual onlooker 1: That guy (pointing)...the one on the schwinn roadster with the square rim glasses...dear god it looks like he's got a testicle in each pant pocket.
casual onlooker 2: that's a guy?
casual onlooker 1: i think he's one of those "hipsters"?
by imsonotcoolitsridiculous May 9, 2014
Get the Hipstermug. Hey! Look at that hipster over yonder! He (She) is listening to music, therefore, he (she) must truly enjoy it, because it is also creatively expressed through his (her) fashion and sweet, sweet dance (or lack of) dance moves.
by GoatsyGoat May 17, 2015
Get the Hipstermug.