Today's Word "Scenester"
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scenester \SEEN-steh(r)\ (noun) - (Youthspeak) Someone intent on "making the scene," a really cool groupie always at the right band concerts, hanging with the right nest of other cool groupies. Scenesters are identified by their drab clothes, smoking, drug use (or talk of drug use), use of cool words from in(tellectual) magazines, which they don't know the meaning of, and lack of attention to the music at the concerts they attend. An offensive hair-do is a must, if not with spikes and bizarre colors, at least with highlights. The antonym is "geek."
"That weird little scenester was dropping the names of band members she knew as though she were some kind of scene goddess,"
From "scene" + suffix -ster. In the 60s, "scene" took on the meaning of a situation or set of circumstances, as a bad scene (trouble) or make the scene (attend or participate in a hip event). "The scene," as in "the Poughkeepsie scene," refers to the range of things to do in a particular place. The music scene is the range of live music in a particular location. Scenester derives from this sense of "scene." Of course, it may be used as a verb, too: "Philly is a good place to scenester if you can't make it to Poughkeepsie."
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