A Wannabe Hipster

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

Young children trained in the art of the dance move known as "whipping". These kids also have a unique taste in apparel, such has multiple hats stacked on their head, gold chains, tight pink exercise pants, floral timberland shoes, and just the largest, baggiest, t-shirt ever. But damn, these kids can whip.

A wannabe hipster

A white, yuppie hipster of Columbia Heights, Washington, DC

A common name for someone with an obsession with whipped cream.

Not to be confused with Whipper Poopie.

As defined on the blog “Sexless in the City,” a whipster is a West Coast hipster. He conveys a kind of style-savvy cool, but is without both the metrosexual prissiness of a certain type of New York man and the avant-garde pretensions of the aspiring hipster. This is the kind of man only L.A. could breed: the guy with unabashed rock-star envy — in that Matchbox 20 kind of way.

The hair is what gives him away. The top — usually blond — is sculpted into a studied muss of short and manly waves (this works best if the hair in question tends to curl or even ’fro at longer lengths) cemented in place with mondo amounts of product. The face beneath is clean-shaven, except for a strategically cultivated tuft groomed to adorn the curve of an otherwise stubble-free chin.