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Definition: Hipsters |
HipstersNoun1. A youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HipstersSynonyms: flower people (n), hippies (n). (additional references) |
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Books | |
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Business | Frilled hems, Capri pants, Turkish trousers, wide leg trousers, drawstring lounge pants, hipsters, low-slung trousers, one-piece trousers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hipsters" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hipsters" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hipsters | 15 |
handbook hipsters | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hipsters"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Jazzmusiker (hipster). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 소식통 (hipster). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ipstershay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Hipsters" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chipster, Hipsher, hopster, Hyposter, hysteres, Jeepster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: esprits, hipster, persist, priests, reships, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stripes. | |
-2 letters: esprit, heists, hisser, perish, pishes, pisser, pistes, prests, priest, prises, reship, resist, ripest, shiers, shiest, shires, shirts, sister, speirs, spiers, spires, spirts, spites, sprite, sprits, stipes, stirps, streps, stripe, strips, theirs, thesis, thrips, tripes. | |
-3 letters: heirs, heist, hests, hires, hists, ither, peris, pests. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: prothesis, spheriest, storeship, superhits. | |
+2 letters: hipsterism, mastership, prosthesis, shipmaster, shrimpiest, sphincters, storeships, suretyship, therapists, therapsids. | |
+3 letters: antiphrases, archpriests, dispatchers, dystrophies, editorships, epistrophes, externships, hipsterisms, hotpressing, internships, interphases, masterships, mentorships, orthoepists, parenthesis, paresthesia, pasticheurs, photoresist, priesthoods, prosthetics, prosthetist, rectorships, senatorship, shinplaster, shipfitters, shipmasters, shoplifters, sophistries, sphalerites, spherulites, spinsterish, spirochetes, stewardship, suretyships, therapeusis, trusteeship, uprightness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 70 73 74 65 72 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. .--. ... - . .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01110000 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i p s t e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0070 0073 0074 0065 0072 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275828586718485 |
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