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by Stachophile December 5, 2011
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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 October 17, 2008
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someone who follows all the new trends
Zeena is a hipster
by hipsterlolololololol August 22, 2012
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Someone with amazing style who typically wears vintage clothing. They usually have an very unquie appearance and rebel against the "norm". They gave an easy-going carefree out look on life. They are mostly found on blogs such as tumblr. Most are unpopular at school and very creative.
DON'T FORGET HIPSTER NEVER CLA TO BE HIPSTER BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO BE PLACED INTO A CATEGORY
by Buba.W August 6, 2012
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Being a hipster is just simply being a well-rounded person..an intellectual..someone who is true to who they are..and enjoys all the positive aspects of life while fluanting an unusual fashion sense unlike most others. Another word to describe people in this culture is "Non-Conformists."
From my experience random words or phrases associated with hipsters are..glasses,homo,skinny jeans,scarves,coffee,weird taste in music..scene kids,unique fashion sense..just to name a few.
by Reggie Fresh February 26, 2009
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. You cannot simply say one is a hipster because one buys vinyl records or likes to read poetry because punks, rockers, musicans , artsists even mechanics like to do these thing..The previous definitions of a modern hipster seems to be written by a hipster in fact.

A hipster is a post 2000 subculture and can only be applied to gen y and gen 0 because before that they simply didn't

A hipster was known as a " yuppie" or " bomemian" or " hippie " in the 80's ans 90's and is not to be confused with the grunge rockers, punks, musicians, poets of gen x.
A " hipster" is nearly always upper middle class, been to university or has a good job and left leaning( socialist

The modern hipster will wear skinny jeans, sneakers , a beard, cap and gaming,band shirt or brand of technology. Some will through op shop type cloths but again , don't get confused with the real gen'Xer, punk or grunge rocker.
The main thing that defines a hipster regardless of look is the lack of rebelliousness which defined the 90's icons, in the arts.it seems they wish they had of been there.
Their apparently rebellious look is an attempt to " fake" something they don't have.Hipsters try as hard as possible to fake ideals, and values of the Gen X heros.
Who is not a hipster: Kurt Cobain(nirvana)John fruciant( red hot chili peppers) Eddie vedder(pearl jam)Keith richards(Rolling Stones )Jimi Hendrix.
A hipster will not: own a gun,take heavy drugs,hate the system, like punk or aggressive music
He's a " hipster
by Sammy11 December 30, 2014
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A group of 20-something guys, all wearing skinny jeans and one of Elaine Benes' cardigans, sitting in a drum circle arguing over who has the dirtiest mustache.
Ugh, can I please just get a coffee without being stopped by at least 3 hipsters outside of Starbucks asking me to sign a petition for a "really important" cause that I've "probably never heard of" because it's "not mainstream"? Here's an idea: let's petition Starbucks to start installing drive through windows at more of their locations.
by genYamInotallowedtochangemygen November 2, 2013
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