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HIPSTER
Definition of HIPSTER
noun
A person who is hip, being keenly interested in the latest trends or fashions.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From hip + -ster. First attested for someone carrying something on their hip in the U.S. in the 1920s. Attested as a variant of hepster in the 1940s, for a follower of the latest fashions/trends/styles.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, HIP · 18 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HIPSTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 29 boards so far. 69 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 11, 31 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 11, 31 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HIPSTER starts with H and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EHIPRST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HIPSTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HIPSTER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 11 - and most players walked straight past it.
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