hepster

English

Etymology

From hep +‎ -ster. First attested in print in 1938.

Noun

hepster (plural hepsters)

1. Dated form of hipster (“follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage”).
   • 1996 May 5, Charlie Leduff, “My Journey Among the Blind”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The scene is unemployed models and European hepsters. My friend is there. When I walk by, people fall silent. I think my friend is smiling.

   • 1997 December 11, Doreen Carvajal, “A New Generation Chases the Spirit of the Beats”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     “With the Beats,” he said, “there is a deliberate severance from the world, a bleak picture of the mundane and a joy in the outlandish that resonates with Generation Xers. The beatniks and today's hepsters share a shoulder-shrug at just about everything, a fashionable ennui.”

   • 2010 July 9, J. David Goodman, “Of Local History and Hepcats”, in New York Times City Room‎^[3]:

     Before Brooklyn became the World Historical Hipster Hub, there were the Hepsters of Harlem. And well before there was an Urban Dictionary for every last nuance of non-standard English, the bandleader and amateur linguist Cab Calloway cataloged some of the unique speech of the 1930s and ’40s in his Hepster’s Dictionary.

See also

• hepcat

Anagrams

• Pethers, threpes