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A person who deliberately uses unpopular, obsolete, or obscure styles and preferences in an attempt to be "cooler" than the mainstream
Normal person: "This thing is popular and conventional, liking it means I'm in synch with everyone else, which makes me feel well surrounded and part of the good crowd"
Hipster: "This thing is special and unconventional and different from what everyone else likes, embracing it makes me feel rare and unique and part of the good crowd"
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Someone who thinks they're cool for doing/wearing/watching/listening non-mainstream stuff. It's one thing to not be mainsteam; but it's something else to act all cool about it.
Hipster: I'm so cool because I don't wear sagging pants.
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A cheap beer drinking mid 20's kid who listens to "underground", "indie" music like Starship Romance.
Hipster: "I'm so hipster I listen to Starship Romance."
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Someone who will do everything to avoid being mainstream.
Usually a person who listens to awful music, in the hope the artist(s) will never become popular and therefore will never become mainstream, wears no designer clothing so to be different to peers, goes to midnight gatherings because they do not have anything to do in the mornings as going to work is beneath them or college doesn't start until 11, have a tattoo in Arabic because they went to the UAE for one week on their gap year and have established a spiritual connection with the country, hates their parents because they work in the city for 'the man', wear snapback or beanie hats and have piercings to show there individualism and finally male hipsters grow neatly trimmed facial hair to so they have an artistic nature.
Hipster 1: Hey, Julian have you heard this new band, there have a really abhorrent vibe aimed towards life, but they particularly hate materialism, politics and religion.
Hipster 2: Yes Laurence, I already have there first album on vinyl and I went to there there first live gig. You know? Before they were cool!
Hipster 1: Oh yeah totally. Are we still going to that midnight fixie bike convention at that abandoned warehouse tonight?
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Ineffably cool cat.
Not to be confused with "dickheads," the empty-headed, ovine army of imitators who inevitably throng in their wake, ruining everything.
Dad was a Marxian intellectual, mum a sculptress or feminist journalist or some such: Whereas we grew up on Nickolodean, he was weaned on radical politics, Andy Warhol and banter about cult literature.
Moderately attractive, probably mixed race, careful not to be *too* beautiful. Has a timeless, sexless aura hanging about him. Seems narcissistic and aloof, yet kind at heart. Survives exclusively on coffee and cigarettes.
Insinuates a complete understanding of wittgenstein and foucault, but prefers to talk about aleister crowley and B-movies. Bored by most things.
Changes conception of self like we change our socks. A scathing, arrogant music fascist yet possessed of no musical talent. Is fine with that apparent contradiction.
Nothing frustrates them more than the idiot masses aping their every move. To sully their aesthetic divinity with non-ironic imitation is the worst thing you could do to him.
And now that half the world is wearing a battered 80s jumper and a headband and is reading heidegger in a café, the true hipsters have long split, and are doing something else. Something mind-blowingly original, utterly profound and eminently ironic, of course.
Hipster 1: What's cool? Um, it's a bit like Zen, or like, maybe defines the peripheries of any given phenomenology. So it's basically better not to think or talk about it at all.
Hipster 2: What's cool? Well what's not cool? It's just a word isn't it? You know, like "sparrow" or "fuckfist" or "hello".
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Someone too ironic for their own good.
1. Hipsters think Bon Jovi from the 80's is so awesome.
3. Hipster: "Oh my God! I just love these butt ugly pink sunglasses!"
4. Hipster: "Let's all go play kickball, and wear short shorts and headbands!"
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