"hepster" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hepsters [plural]
Etymology: hep + -ster. First attested in print in 1938. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|hep|ster}} hep + -ster Head templates: {{en-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”). Tags: alt-of, dated Alternative form of: hipster (extra: follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage) Related terms: hepcat
    Sense id: en-hepster-en-noun-5YCQKPjn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ster

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1996 May 5, Charlie Leduff, “My Journey Among the Blind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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          "ref": "1997 December 11, Doreen Carvajal, “A New Generation Chases the Spirit of the Beats”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "“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.”",
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          "text": "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.",
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