hepsterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

hepster (複数形 hepsters)

1. Dated form of hipster (“follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz かつ Bohemian culture at the time of usage”).
   • 1996 May 5, Charlie Leduff, “My Journey Among the Blind”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     The scene is unemployed models and European hepsters. My friend is there. When I walk by, people fall silent. I think my friend is smiling.

   • 1997 December 11, Doreen Carvajal, “A New Generation Chases the Spirit of the Beats”, in The New York Times‎^[2], ISSN 0362-4331:

     “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.”

   • 2010 July 9, J. David Goodman, “Of Local History and Hepcats”, in New York Times City Room‎^[3]:

     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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• hepcat

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