hipsterism

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noun

hipness

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Meanings

nounhipsterism (countable and uncountable, plural hipsterisms)

plural hipsterisms

  1. countableuncountablehipness

    Neighborhood Committees and Social Organizations take cops to dinner with free discussions offering discriminating insights into hipsterism, black militancy, and drug culture.

    1968, “Take a Cop to Dinner”, in The Digger Papers
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    Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.

    2016, Mark Mattern, Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, →ISBN
  2. countableuncountableSomething typical of a hipster.

Origin

From hipster + -ism.

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Translations

Spanish hipsterismo
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Cite this entry
APA

hipsterism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hipsterism

MLA

“hipsterism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hipsterism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hipsterism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hipsterism.

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