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hipsterfication

hipsterfication

English

Noun

hipsterfication (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The process of making or becoming a hipster or characteristic of hipsters.
    • 2013, David Shields & Shane Salerno, Salinger, Simon & Schuster (2013), ISBN 9781476744858, page 390:
      A lifetime before the hipsterfication of Kings County, however, Salinger wishes he could explore Brooklyn.
    • 2013, Peter Jon Lindberg, "London Is the Capital of Food", Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, February 2013, page 108:
      Soif sits on a remote stretch of Battersea Rise that bears all the marks of hipsterfication: women with Feist bangs; guys in stevedore caps.
    • 2015, Michael Hogan, "Six things hipsters have ruined", The Observer, 2 August 2015:
      Yet even ageless super-spies aren’t immune to hipsterfication.