Definition of "hipster" []

• Slang One who is exceptionally aware of or interested in the latest trends and tastes, especially a devotee of modern jazz. (noun)

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• "Etymologists are uncertain about exactly when the word hippie came into existence, although it is clearly a variation of the term hipster, which had been in use during the forties, in reference to devotees of jazz music."
• "Better than being a Willy-style trustafarian drug-addled fixie-luvin 'dirty boy band hipster who don't know where the term hipster originated (Beat generation; jazz)."
• "To which Harris responds:His observation that the term hipster itself emerged from jazz and the counterculture is instructive."