Learn English – the meaning of “to look like a square”

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I read this on The Oatmeal:

Hey, he is clapping along to the music! How
quaint! I should too. I would not want
to look like a square!

Another one:

You Won't Look Like a Square With
B-Side's Cubic, Steam-Punk Jewelry

(Emphasis added.) Now, what does it mean by looking like a square? Amazingly, Google doesn't know what that means.

Best Answer

A Google search for define:square gives me as one meaning

a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

which is what "square" means in your example.