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hipsterism

[hip-stuh-riz-uhm]

noun

  1. the style of life of a hipster.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of hipsterism1

An Americanism dating back to 1955–60; hipster 1 + -ism
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Example Sentences

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“Typical Guardian hipsterism calling City’s opponents ‘Gladbach’,” snorts Gordon Fenns.

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“College kids were reading Marvel comics and both loving the mild psychedelia of the drawings and also appreciating the slight hipsterism of the banter,” Howe says.

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Years ago when I was first starting out, I wrote this piece about hipsterism for Vice.

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And I ended up having all these conversations with all these Black folks in my life about the way hipsterism deals with the past ironically and playfully.

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This faux blue-collar hipsterism preceded the turn to high-gloss consumer minimalism that happened once the economic recovery kicked in, preparing the ground for its popularity.

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