different between hipster vs hepcat

English

Alternative forms

• (A person interested in the latest trends): hepster (dated)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?p.st?/

Noun

hipster (plural hipsters)

1. A person who is keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions. [from earlier 20th c.]
   • 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.

Synonyms

(Prohibition):

• vial villain
• gentleman from Kentucky (from Kentucky backcountry moonshine)

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

(Prohibition):

• suffer from hip disease (v.)
• bootlegging (n.)
• bootleg (v.) (from hiding flasks in the boot, or stocking)

Translations

Verb

hipster (third-person singular simple present hipsters, present participle hipstering, simple past and past participle hipstered)

1. To behave like a hipster.
2. To dress or decorate in a hip fashion.

References

Anagrams

• Pithers, perisht, prehist.

French

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m or f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster

Polish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?ip.st?r/

Noun

hipster m pers (feminine hipsterka)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)
2. hipster (aficionado of jazz who considers himself or herself to be hip)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) hipsterski

Further reading

• hipster in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hipster in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hipster.

Noun

hipster m, f (plural hipsters)

1. hipster (person interested in the latest trends)

Spanish

Etymology

From English hipster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xibste?/, [?xi??s.t?e?]

Noun

hipster m (plural hipsters or hipster)

1. hipster

   Synonyms: gafapasta, modernillo

Derived terms

• hipsterismo

English

Alternative forms

• hep cat, hep-cat

Etymology

From hep +? cat, from hep (“sophisticated, aware”). Compare cat (“jazz enthusiast”). Attested in the sense of “sophisticated person” from the 1920s.

Noun

hepcat (plural hepcats)

1. (informal, music) A jazz performer, especially one from the 1940s and 1950s.
2. (informal, dated, now often humorous) A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s.

   Synonym: hepster
3. (informal, dated) A sophisticated person, one who is stylish.

See also

• beatnik
• bebopper
• cool cat

References

Anagrams

• paceth