June 26, 2009

Hipster handbook II: Hepster

Hepster: An African hipster. It is not compulsory that the hipster in question be Black or African-American to be a Hepster. The true Hepster falls apart when s/he sees the The phrase hipster is a deviation from, hippie which is a devation from hip. That hip was mis-derived from hepcat, hip-cat. In Swahili, hepcat means person, in the same way that mench means person in Yiddish.



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