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Huh? I'm pretty sure "hipster" took off as a term back in the 1960s, associated with the whole countercultural movement going on then. Google's n-gram viewer a
by 6502nerdface 11y ago
Huh? I'm pretty sure "hipster" took off as a term back in the 1960s, associated with the whole countercultural movement going on then.
Google's n-gram viewer agrees -- it starts appearing in books in the 1950s, has some ups and downs, but was as popular as ever in 2000. [1]
[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hipster&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2010&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Chipster%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bhipster%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHipster%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BHIPSTER%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hipster&case_i...
- TorKlingberg 11y agoSure, the word as existed since the 1940s, but was related to jazz and different from the modern usage.