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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hipster"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"word": "Hipsterin"
},
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"word": "χίπστερ"
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"roman": "Hippusutā",
"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
"word": "ヒップスター"
},
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"masculine"
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"word": "хипстер"
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"roman": "hipsṭar",
"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
"word": "हिप्स्टर"
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"word": "хи́пстер"
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"word": "modernillo"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"word": "gafapasta"
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"code": "es",
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},
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "person interested in the latest trends",
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"ref": "2000, Eugene Davidson, Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays on the Sixties, page 139",
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"ref": "2011, Martin Bodek, The Year of Bad Behavior: Bearing Witness to the Uncouthiest of Humanity",
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"ref": "2017, The Rough Guide to the USA",
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"ref": "2009, Jill Malone, A Field Guide to Deception, page 135",
"text": "Claire's permission, to be going out with this fine, circumspect woman, all hipstered out and cowboy booted, without a chaperone.",
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{
"ref": "2014, Tellulah Darling, My Life From Hell",
"text": "I nudged Theo. “I give him three hours before he's hipstered it back up again.",
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},
{
"ref": "2019, Michael Pryor, Graveyard Shift in Ghost Town",
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