An adjective. Describes a person who rejects mainstream altogether. Usually extraordinarily smart genius's. Constantly checks stocks and always talks about the advanced placement courses he/she is taking. Likes math and science. Usually go by the name of Phoenix if a guy. Deeply interested in politics, they spend their days arguing their beliefs to anyone who's interested. Also like to spend hours on end playing video games in a dark room, including the new hit game "Skyrim", a magical game with dragons. Hipsters tend to be skaters as well, dressing and acting like dumb kids but really being very smart and nerdy on the inside. Don't be fooled when you see one, they aren't dumb at all.
Person 1: "Dude, Phoenix is so smart. He's in calculus, did you know? I would've never guessed, he acts so stupid."
Person 2: "He's a hipster; of course he looks stupid on the outside."
Person 2: "He's a hipster; of course he looks stupid on the outside."
by hipster_lover December 26, 2011
by grace too February 15, 2005
Not to be confused with Scenester (largely involved with emo, hardcore, and post-hardcore) or Indie-Rocker (self-explanatory), hipsters are normally thin middle class 18-25 year olds who listen various styles of independent music, which is rarely rock oriented (though nu-grunge, nu-psych, and metal are making a comeback).
The female fashion ranges from largely thrifted vintage looking clothing to elaborately designed obscure fashion designers (Dries, Anne D, etc.); the men often use similar styles, wearing tapered jeans most of which are black (though sagged dropped crotch jeans are the new thing), oversized shirts (opposite of the misnomer that extremely tight t-shirts are hipster, as they are definitively scenester), dress shoes or high top sneakers and large rimmed glasses.
Politically hipsters are generally apathetic, but recently as the hipster bible Vice has shifted politically from the right to the left, the hipster mass has followed. The rise of 90s revival culture has also brought back the use of marijuana and X and has replaced cocaine, though the ever popular PBR and American Spirit Cigarettes remain popular.
Overall, hipsters can be characterized by their relatively carefree and iconoclastic lifestyles, their adherence to debauchery and sexual freedom, and the intake of drugs and alcohol.
The female fashion ranges from largely thrifted vintage looking clothing to elaborately designed obscure fashion designers (Dries, Anne D, etc.); the men often use similar styles, wearing tapered jeans most of which are black (though sagged dropped crotch jeans are the new thing), oversized shirts (opposite of the misnomer that extremely tight t-shirts are hipster, as they are definitively scenester), dress shoes or high top sneakers and large rimmed glasses.
Politically hipsters are generally apathetic, but recently as the hipster bible Vice has shifted politically from the right to the left, the hipster mass has followed. The rise of 90s revival culture has also brought back the use of marijuana and X and has replaced cocaine, though the ever popular PBR and American Spirit Cigarettes remain popular.
Overall, hipsters can be characterized by their relatively carefree and iconoclastic lifestyles, their adherence to debauchery and sexual freedom, and the intake of drugs and alcohol.
by Sludged September 05, 2007
Hipster: "Man, I just feel this crazy-strong urge to go against EVERYTHING MAINSTREAM. What is the purpose behind that? What is MY purpose in life?"
Hipster's Higher-Self: "Now we're gettin' somewhere! Keep asking these questions..."
Hipster's Higher-Self: "Now we're gettin' somewhere! Keep asking these questions..."
by annabellover April 01, 2009
Somebody tryin' to be me! I'm an independent thinker but I don't throw my genius around like I'm a snob. A hipster is somebody who thinks he or she is all that but he or she isn't. Someone who makes us gifted people look bad.
"Dang, girl did you see that hipster chick with that dirty old time 'Cheer Detergent' t-shirt ? <<smart girl yells out the bus window>> GET A CLUE WE DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE TRYIN' TO BE IRONIC!!!!!"
by Supa Smart Black Chica! March 11, 2010
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by Stachophile December 05, 2011
n. (1) A young or youngish person who, in matters of social, musical, sartorial and professional taste, considers himself or herself to be "post-ironic" (i.e. believes that neither social practices nor social commentaries are worthwhile pursuits) while blowing off the problem that no such thing as an ironic gesture about irony can actually exist. (2) An individual who exhibits outward personal signs of late-capitalist malaise about one's inexorable and total involvement in standard-normative fields of production and consumption.
Hipsters typically exhibit a variety of self-reflexive and tragicomic symptoms, including: Retro fashion / Denial of identity / Embrace of outward poverty while retaining a measure of affluence / Rigid standards of social, professional, and political flexibility / Joyous self-realization in sadness / Personal fulfillment in the realization of non-transcendent gestures
by guayaqo2 August 24, 2008