Before long, the guy confirms that he is, indeed, a die hard nationalist. I tell him that in Belfast it's shitty form to bring up politics with a stranger, and besides, I moved from NI to get away from all that stuff: red faced unionists and seething nationalists, ex-gangsters turned pious religious zealots, Pole-murdering East Belfastians, recreational rioters. What he means is, he doesn’t politically acknowledge the state as decreed by British law. He tells me there is no such thing as Northern Ireland. He laughs hollowly and, now that we're getting on, I ask him whereabouts in Northern Ireland he's from. I suggest that he not ask any of the surrounding woman for 'some sniff', lest it be misconstrued as some kind of kinky sexual request. After explaining to him that I don't take heroin, he politely informs me that 'sniff' is street slang for 'Mandy', or MDMA. Before I can answer he's showing me an iPhone video of the rock band he's in, and asking me if I know where he can get some 'sniff'. They are wearing band T-shirts, one of which bears the insignia of stadium ravers KLF, and another a wife beater with punned-on Black Flag bars.Ī Northern Irish hipster asks me if I'm in a band. Wan bar staff use their phones while pulling your pint. I overhear conversations about Tumblr traffic and others about vintage tea, and men dressed as Huckleberry Finn play the alpha male in the hope of impressing permanently unimpressed door men. A blonde guy, modelled presumably on 80s Val Kilmer, discusses his neck tattoo with a girl in rimmed glasses and granny-chic pants. Soundtracked by the standard medley of 'music for urbanite creatives' (ESG, gangsta rap, Tom Tom Club and the ironic deployment of Lionel Ritchie) grunge-y Courtney Love neophytes talk over the corpses of fey indie boys, who sleep across the mottled leather sofas. Send us feedback about these examples.The scene in the Shacklewell Arms is fairly typical of any gentrified boozer in the Hackney precinct, come Sunday night. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'hipster.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2023 El Alfa, the king of this speedy cousin to reggaeton, raps at an auctioneer’s pace and with a muppet’s abandon, using beats that any hyperpop hipster could shake their mullet to. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2023 By that point, Alysia is a Brit pop-loving hipster into Depeche Mode and OMD, rocking assymetrical hair and outsize jackets. 2023 Powder was to become a kind of Davos for hipsters. Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 15 Apr. 2023 The rangy, androgynous Smith, seventy-six, has been revered by successive generations of hipsters as the ultimate punk rock goddess. 2023 Launched in 1982, Panoply is a weekend of visual art, dance, music and more that brings together the city’s families, young adults, teens, hipsters, hippies, seniors and people of all shades. Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. Suzie Dundas, Popular Mechanics, Sidewalks grew more crowded, and the fluid line between hipsters, tech workers, financiers, drug users and homeless people turned into a strange pageant running east and west of Spring Street. Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, Certainly an unorthodox approach to camping chairs, the Trippy Outdoors Dreamer is the option for those who need flat storage (or to feel a little bit like a hipster). Recent Examples on the Web Every other look felt like a mix of these two aesthetics: one part Golden Age and one part nostalgic Tumblr hipster.
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