hipster

Etymology

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.

noun

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 Bohemian counterculture.
3. An aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip.
4. (US, obsolete, Prohibition) A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
5. (US, obsolete, 1930s) A dancer, particularly a female one.
6. Underwear with an elastic waistband at hip level.

verb

1. To behave like a hipster.
   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. 2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139
   The hipsters are hipstering, the businessmen are businessing, the parents are parenting, the children are childrening, and the black teenagers are calling each other niggers. 2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity
   If you're up for a night of hipstering, this is a good spot to begin - a grungy joint that nevertheless hosts a solid varying roster of blues, funk, reggae, rock and indie bands. 2017, The Rough Guide to the USA
2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.
   Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone. 2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, page 135
   I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again. 2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell
   Victorian frock coats and neckwear, with facial hair that would make any hipster contemplate giving up hipstering and taking up... 2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town