millennial pink

English

Etymology

Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Noun

millennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

1. A light rosy pink colour.
   • 2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:

     Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.

   • 2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:

     […] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.

   • 2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:

     Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous.

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Adjective

millennial pink (not comparable)

1. Of a light rosy pink colour.
   • 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1]:

     But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]