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hipsterland en · NOUN

Etymology

From hipster + land.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The space inhabited by hipsters.
    • Pop hasn't been this divided since the early 1970s; there's been a revival of that progressive rock snobbery over 'that disco shit', with the Smiths' 'Panic' hit polarising hipsterland. 1988, Angela McRobbie, Zoot suits and second-hand dresses: an anthology of fashion and music:
    • Following the nightmarish adventures in hipsterland of a young woman named Dorian, it takes viewers on a delirious bad trip from innocence to experience. 2009 May 29, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
    • The fashion has crossed over into hipsterland, where people wear nonprescription glasses to look like brains, little backpacks to look like little kids, and polyester to look like they just don't care. 1999, Giant robot, numbers 16-23: