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Etymology

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hipster +‎ -ism

Noun

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hipsterism (countable and uncountable, plural hipsterisms)

  1. hipness
    • 1968, “Take a Cop to Dinner”, in The Digger Papers:
      Neighborhood Committees and Social Organizations take cops to dinner with free discussions offering discriminating insights into hipsterism, black militancy, and drug culture.
    • 2016, Mark Mattern, Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, →ISBN:
      Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.
  2. Something typical of a hipster.

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