hepster
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hep + -ster. First attested in print in 1938.[1]
Noun
[edit]hepster (plural hepsters)
- Dated form of hipster (“follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage”).
- Synonyms: trendy, voguie; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person
- 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Merriam-Webster, "The Original Hipsters"