hip

Through Being Cool

You ever fuck around and spend years assembling a collection of cultural artifacts, preferences and mannerisms that conform to a shifting, unwritten set of standards in pursuit of social acceptance, while occasionally breaking with consensus to look like an independent and unique person?

Nah, me neither.

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“As Norman Mailer would say, it’s ‘hip’ to use obscure terms and meaningless symbols.”

— 'The Listener’ (1961)

hip, n. slang (orig. U.S.) 1. The quality or condition of being hip; fashionable sophistication. adj. 2. More generally: fashionable, up-to-date; stylish, sophisticated; cool (sometimes in ironic use). Now the usual sense.