hipster

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈhɪp.stə/    /ˈhɪp.stɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
    — c. 1954, Jack Kerouac, Untitled poem, in Book of Sketches, 1952-57, Penguin, 2006, p. 239, I, poor French Canadian Ti Jean become / a big sophisticated hipster esthete in / the homosexual arts […]
  2. A member of the Bohemian counterculture.
  3. An aficionado of jazz who considers themselves to be hip.
    — Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”
  4. A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol). US,obsolete
    — (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)
  5. A dancer, particularly a female one during the 1930s. US,historical,obsolete
  6. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.
动词 v.
  1. To behave like a hipster. informal,intransitive
    — But it was a white staff member of a reform school who gave Claude Brown the first notion he ever had that there might be something in the world besides dope and sex and hipstering.
  2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion. informal,intransitive
    — Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.

词形变化

hipsters plural hepster alternative,dated hipsters present,singular,third-person hipstering participle,present hipstered participle,past hipstered past hepster alternative,dated

词源

词源 1
From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.
词源 2
From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.
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