1. subculture - Noun
2. subculture - Verb
A portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features, often in contrast to the larger mainstream culture.
The goth subculture has its own mode of dress, and it has a characteristic musical style.
(biology) A culture made by transferring microorganisms from a previous culture to a fresh growth medium
subculture (third-person singular simple present subcultures, present participle subculturing, simple past and past participle subcultured)
(biology) To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything. Hunter S. Thompson
Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic. Neal Stephenson
I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music. Larry Norman
I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture. Jonathan Lethem
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. Michael Lewis (author)
Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy. Chuck Klosterman