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hipster glasses en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (dated, plural, plural-only) Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.
    • He had these watery blue eyes behind a pair of black hipster glasses and was holding a fancy camera. 2012, Emily Ecton, Project Jackalope, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 79:
    • He was wearing hipster glasses, jeans, a red-and-white striped shirt, and red sneakers. 2014, Heather Vogel Frederick, Absolutely Truly, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 137:
    • “I think we totally need to talk about the StarMart thing,” a girl with chunky hipster glasses and a blunt, black bob says, and rapidly the rest of the council agrees. 2012, Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me, Viking, →ISBN:

Synonyms

nerd glasses