hipsterfication

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noun

The process of making or becoming a hipster or characteristic of hipsters.

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Meanings

nounhipsterfication (uncountable)
  1. informaluncountableThe process of making or becoming a hipster or characteristic of hipsters.

    Yet even ageless super-spies aren’t immune to hipsterfication.

    2015 August 2, Michael Hogan, “Six things hipsters have ruined”, in The Observer
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    A lifetime before the hipsterfication of Kings County, however, Salinger wishes he could explore Brooklyn.

    2013, David Shields, Shane Salerno, Salinger, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 390

    Soif sits on a remote stretch of Battersea Rise that bears all the marks of hipsterfication: women with Feist bangs; guys in stevedore caps.

    2013 February, Peter Jon Lindberg, “London Is the Capital of Food”, in Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, page 108

Origin

From hipster + -fication.

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APA

hipsterfication. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hipsterfication

MLA

“hipsterfication.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hipsterfication. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hipsterfication,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hipsterfication.

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