hipsterfication

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hipster +‎ -fication

Noun[edit]

hipsterfication (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The process of making or becoming a hipster or characteristic of hipsters.
    • 2013, David Shields, Shane Salerno, Salinger, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 390:
      A lifetime before the hipsterfication of Kings County, however, Salinger wishes he could explore Brooklyn.
    • 2013 February, Peter Jon Lindberg, “London Is the Capital of Food”, in Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, 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 August 2, Michael Hogan, “Six things hipsters have ruined”, in The Observer:
      Yet even ageless super-spies aren’t immune to hipsterfication.