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Noun: hipsters  hip-stu(r)z
  1. 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; favoured acid rock and progressive rock music
    - flower people, hippies
Noun: hipster  hip-stu(r)
  1. A follower of the latest fashions and trends
     
  2. Someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
    - hippie, hippy, flower child
     
  3. Trousers or underwear that fasten or have a waistband at hip level

Type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer, youth subculture

Encyclopedia: Hipsters

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