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A person with cultivated eccentricities which are treated very seriously yet at the same time as an inside joke. These traits or markings are odd enough to look out of place, yet tame enough to be shrugged off as a matter of taste. They may include choice of facial hair, clothes, food and drink preference, fashion accessories, vehicles, and listening music. Hipsters are particularly fond of listening to sub-mediocre bands whose songs have sweet and melancholic lyrics, in order to affirm their out-of-the-mainstream eccentricity.
She likes wearing shirts with cute animals that brutally murder one another, and whenever someone mentions bacon she raves about it. What a hipster.
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Hipsters are too cool for Urban Dictionary. You probably don't know what they use because it's underground.
The hipster's skinny jeans tore at the crotch, and it turned out he wasn't a man after all.
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(hip-stur) n. A 20 something white, upper-middle class suburban transplant to any gentrifying neighborhood in any major city, but Brooklyn, NY in particular. Disheveled, hand-me-down appearance to present the image that they are not a slave to trends or fashions(ha!) They typically wear thick, Andy Warhol-like glasses (whether they need them or not), unshaven, unkept shaggy hair and retro Converse sneakers sometimes with no laces. The term is often used as a pejorative considering a "hipster" detests being called a "hipster."
Williamsburg, Brooklyn is now a hipster neighborhood.
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a person who does not believe in today's pop culture because it is too "mainstream". However, a good hipster would not admit to being a hipster because hipsterism itself would be considered too mainstream..
person: youre such a hipster
hipster: how dare you compare me to them U: *rages*
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In the process of being hipsterized, the graffiti in my neighborhood, while unchanged, turned into coffee-shop-defining artwork.
"Hipsters", as they are so-called, are usually (though not exclusively), white people from middle-class backgrounds who move into urban areas, "pioneering" gentrification. (Yes, that's right. If you look up gentrification, the term can aptly be applied to the hipsters who paved the way for the yuppies; in both cases the original residents and businesses are threatened, and of course, one thing leads to the other).
Secondly, "hipsters" tend to be very insular. Generally speaking, they only wish to associate with other hipsters, which means much of their art work and ideas appear as though it all came from a single source (or a single collection of sources). And they are pack animals who tend to follow the schemas, heuristics, and trajectory of their pack. For people that espouse independent thinking, this is a fallacy.
There are a near infinite number of ideas, possibilities for cultural interchange, and perspectives that can lead to vast and innumerous creative outputs.
Generally, this diversity is not well represented by the hipster demographic. And lets be honest, it needs to be emphasized, many hipsters are white people, and white people have a long history of asserting a sense of entitlement and self-importance over others.
“Intelligent thought is not dead in New York. It has simply moved to Brooklyn.”
- Oh, right, you're a hipster.
One of those peeps who looks down upon your engagement, because marriage is too "bougez" for their liking. They will tell you this while simultaneously holding "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel on vinyl in one hand and "On The Road" by Jack Kerouack in the other. Ask them about either and they wont know what the hell they are talking about because instead of actually reading or listening to music they take pictures of the covers and put them on social media sites. They are also identified by a patch or button advertising over generalized leftist values attached to a sweater from Goodwill. Hipsters generally tuck them into thrifted high waisted shorts with a belt from American Apparel that also looks thrifted but was actually $50.00. If you still can not tell if they are a Hipster, chat them up, more likely than not they will be sure to tell you that whatever your saying is offensive to them, especially the real discreet things you say that are actually not offensive at all.
Kristi: Yo Tabatha! This Green Tea is Dope, all my Niggies drink this $hit, you got to try it.
Tabatha: Kristi, saying "Green Tea" is offensive and appropriated. I understand that you didn't know any better, but i'd feel much more comfortable if you called it "Green Water From The Asian Lands" next time.
Kristi: Dayumnn Tabatha, that was a test and you failed. Now go get yourself a PBR, you overpriced PBR drinking, Hipster.