Meaning of blipster | Babel Free

Definitions

An ethnically black (African-American) hipster.

Examples

“You get⟳ the sense⟳ that if Jimi Hendrix were to show⟳ up in Echo Park⟳ today, he’d be publicly mocked in a style section piece on blipsters for wearing a feathered fedora.”

“Blipsters hate⟳ hip-hop unless they are spoofing it (Das Racist), turning it into a mash-up (Danger Mouse), updating it to sound⟳ more techno-punk (Santigold, Ninjasonik), or getting it from an unlikely source (e.g., Swedish songstress Lykke Li covering A Tribe Called Quest).”

“During the first season, I wondered why Hannah and her friends didn't have⟳ at least one blipster friend or why Hannah's boss at the publishing house or one or more of the girls' love⟳ interests couldn't be an actor of color.”

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