hipper

Pluralhippers

1. 1
   adjectiveslang

   Comparative form of hip.

   The neighborhood has grown hipper since the art galleries opened.

   Younger designers made the brand hipper without alienating its older fans.

   Note

   Only the slang sense of hip can be compared: aware, up to date, trendy. This form never touches the hip of the body, the roof or the bridge truss. The final p doubles before -er, as in big and bigger. More hip also occurs and means much the same. Like its base, the form keeps a casual, slangy register.

2. 2
   nouncolloquialcountable

   A waterproof boot extending to the hip, worn by anglers and others for wading through deep water.

   The angler tugged a hipper over each leg before wading into the river.

   A torn hipper let icy water seep in halfway across the creek.

   Similarwader

   Note

   An angler's nickname built from hip + -er, so the boot is named for where it stops. It belongs to casual talk on the riverbank, while hip boot is the plainer term. One boot is a hipper, and you pull on a pair of hippers. Don't confuse it with the comparative of trendy hip, a separate word that only shares the spelling.

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