hipsterfy

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English

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Etymology

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From hipster +‎ -fy.

Verb

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hipsterfy (third-person singular simple present hipsterfies, present participle hipsterfying, simple past and past participle hipsterfied)

  1. (informal) To make or become a hipster or characteristic of hipsters.
    • 2014, Shannon Aitken, Living Abroad in Beijing[1], Avalon Travel, →ISBN:
      When you're finished at the market, don't leave—stroll around the surrounding hútòng and enjoy an older section of Beijing that hasn't been hipsterfied, at least not yet.
    • 2014 March, “Walthamstow Diary”, in The E List, number 14, page 18:
      Having said that I like real ale and have a fuzzy face, I don't own red trousers though so I don't think I have hipsterfied yet.
    • 2015, The Rough Guide to Great Britain[2], Rough Guides, →ISBN:
      One of many old boozers in the area to have been gussied up and hipsterfied, this backstreet pub has managed to keep a generally mellow vibe.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hipsterfy.