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  • noun The state of being a hipster.

Etymologies

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hipster +‎ -dom

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Examples

  • With nine fixed-gear Softrides you could assemble the most effective Burrito Distribution Force "hipsterdom" has ever seen.

    Insulated Panel: Cresting the Summit, Jumping the Shark BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • A decade into the phenomenon, hipsterdom expanded into the mainstream at an alarming pace.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • In Mexico City, hipsterdom is essentially an expression of middle-class comfort.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • A decade into the phenomenon, hipsterdom expanded into the mainstream at an alarming pace.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • How quickly you turn from earnest mission to sellout hipsterdom.

    Outside Lands Food Trucks Announced (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • In Mexico City, hipsterdom is essentially an expression of middle-class comfort.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • I am often here, in this very spot, completely comfortable with not at all caring a whit for the cute vagaries of indie hipsterdom, with its pallid skin and questionable sexual acumen and slumpy thirty-year-olds on skateboards.

    Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire Mark Morford 2010

  • The result is that just about every liberated, moderately middle-class young person in Mexico has, it seems, gravitated toward fashion and hipsterdom.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • For no matter how hard I try, no matter the volume or the environment, the mood or the alcohol consumption, my musical sensibilities simply refuse to enjoy the current gods of cool indie music, the greatest act known to all of modern hipsterdom next to Radiohead, the band known as The Arcade Fire.

    Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire Mark Morford 2010

  • Whether it's a photo of an 80s or 90s kid wearing today's fashionable eye wear and patterns, an elderly person who has that "grandma chic" look down pat, or a baby who seems to unknowingly be on the track to hipsterdom, these people are out there looking hip without a clue.

    Unintentional Hipsters (PHOTOS) Katla McGlynn 2010

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