One of those peeps who looks down upon your engagement, because marriage is too "bougez" for their liking. They will tell you this while simultaneously holding "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel on vinyl in one hand and "On The Road" by Jack Kerouack in the other. Ask them about either and they wont know what the hell they are talking about because instead of actually reading or listening to music they take pictures of the covers and put them on social media sites. They are also identified by a patch or button advertising over generalized leftist values attached to a sweater from Goodwill. Hipsters generally tuck them into thrifted high waisted shorts with a belt from American Apparel that also looks thrifted but was actually $50.00. If you still can not tell if they are a Hipster, chat them up, more likely than not they will be sure to tell you that whatever your saying is offensive to them, especially the real discreet things you say that are actually not offensive at all.
Kristi: Yo Tabatha! This Green Tea is Dope, all my Niggies drink this $hit, you got to try it.
Tabatha: Kristi, saying "Green Tea" is offensive and appropriated. I understand that you didn't know any better, but i'd feel much more comfortable if you called it "Green Water From The Asian Lands" next time.
Kristi: Dayumnn Tabatha, that was a test and you failed. Now go get yourself a PBR, you overpriced PBR drinking, Hipster.
Tabatha: Kristi, saying "Green Tea" is offensive and appropriated. I understand that you didn't know any better, but i'd feel much more comfortable if you called it "Green Water From The Asian Lands" next time.
Kristi: Dayumnn Tabatha, that was a test and you failed. Now go get yourself a PBR, you overpriced PBR drinking, Hipster.
by humus rulz 101 December 29, 2015
A urban dining establishment where drinks are overpriced, the food organic, and the waiters wear tight pants and have beards. People sporting Adidas polyester gym clothes (matching tops and bottoms) are only allowed in the restaurant if they are working as dishwashers.
Life expectancy of a typical hipsterant varies between three months and a year depending on location.
Life expectancy of a typical hipsterant varies between three months and a year depending on location.
Flavio came back from the Biennale with an award for best short documentary. The afterparty was at a new hipsterant in south Brooklyn
by Amagerikaner December 05, 2014
In the process of being hipsterized, the graffiti in my neighborhood, while unchanged, turned into coffee-shop-defining artwork.
by mirandabeane December 21, 2015
Such people are the true "cool cats" of the world. They're those "in the know", ahead of the norm. They're not of the mainstream. They be eternal beatniks! (And certainly not hippies). Yes, they're people who are-- or at least consider themselves to be-- "hip", as in "hip to the jive". Older hip hipsters will of course always look down on latter-day versions, those (younger) folks who think themselves to be hipsters simply because, for instance, they're able to exhibit a little facial peach-fuzz and have a taste for some generic pop music that they've deemed to be, umm, "non-corporate". Hah!
Hipsters, flipsters,
and finger-poppin' daddies:
Knock me your lobes.
This bit of hipsterism was written by "Lord Buckley" (Richard 'Lord' Buckley'), who was a singular, amazingly influencial (Caucasian!) comic genius that looked a little like Salvador Dali, affected a British accent, dressed in a tux and was best known as one who performed hipster interpretations/translations of well-known dramatic scenes and notable speeches.
The above quote comes from Lord Buckley's version of the very beginning of Mark Anthony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones...
and finger-poppin' daddies:
Knock me your lobes.
This bit of hipsterism was written by "Lord Buckley" (Richard 'Lord' Buckley'), who was a singular, amazingly influencial (Caucasian!) comic genius that looked a little like Salvador Dali, affected a British accent, dressed in a tux and was best known as one who performed hipster interpretations/translations of well-known dramatic scenes and notable speeches.
The above quote comes from Lord Buckley's version of the very beginning of Mark Anthony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones...
by Andy Balts September 23, 2010
The new thing you DO NOT want to be. Hipsters tend to purposefully look for the things that no one else likes just to say that they like it. To them, if the music, art etc. are in style or cool to others, it is uncool. Hipsters usually are the people who think they are original when there parents probably did the same thing when they were kids. Indies and hipsters are VERY different.
First person: Look at elaine and her new "geek style" glasses.
Second Person: Hey! I saw a picture of my mom with those same glasses on from the 80's!
First Person: wow. what a hipster.
Second Person: Hey! I saw a picture of my mom with those same glasses on from the 80's!
First Person: wow. what a hipster.
by Starsty January 13, 2011
are way too mainstream.
by xx44xx January 19, 2013
Hipsters are a 21st Century subculture that, in an attempt to reject having a uniform style of dress or artistic taste, has developed a uniform style of dress and artistic taste. Hipsters wear sunglasses in winter and checked shirts and scarves all year round, and short shorts (regardless of whether the hipster is male or female). Hipsters wear Toms shoes and have multiple tattoos. Sometimes hipsters wear waistcoats. Hipsters often smoke, even though they are also proud of being well educated and live healthy, green lifestyles. Hipsters drink locally-brewed beer in cans.
Hipsters often speak about esoteric musical bands from decades past, or bands from small towns few have heard of, but which are now based in Greenwich Village. When other hipsters (or worse, members of the general public) have heard of these bands, hipsters feel great frustration. Skilled hipsters mask this frustration by instead denouncing the band, explaining, "I was just trying to talk about a band you probably had heard of, because I am a really inclusive person, and I didn't want anyone to feel left out."
Hipsters often feel they are the best adjudicators of art, including films, music, literature and poetry, and visual art. The average hipster has read 2000 more novels than the nearest hipster in the cafe he or she is doing nothing in.
Hipsters often have no fixed income, yet they have all of the latest technology, most of which have a white apple symbol.
Hipsters often speak about esoteric musical bands from decades past, or bands from small towns few have heard of, but which are now based in Greenwich Village. When other hipsters (or worse, members of the general public) have heard of these bands, hipsters feel great frustration. Skilled hipsters mask this frustration by instead denouncing the band, explaining, "I was just trying to talk about a band you probably had heard of, because I am a really inclusive person, and I didn't want anyone to feel left out."
Hipsters often feel they are the best adjudicators of art, including films, music, literature and poetry, and visual art. The average hipster has read 2000 more novels than the nearest hipster in the cafe he or she is doing nothing in.
Hipsters often have no fixed income, yet they have all of the latest technology, most of which have a white apple symbol.
"Do you see that guy with the designer stubble, the tie-scarf combo, the coke bottle glasses, the skin-tight jeans, the leather boots, a tattoo on his arm that says 'RAMONES', and that walkman that probably doesn't even have batteries in it?"
"Sure do. Why does he have so much swag?"
"Because he's a hipster."
"I see. Makes sense."
"Sure do. Why does he have so much swag?"
"Because he's a hipster."
"I see. Makes sense."
by hipster_of_the_month November 28, 2012