millennial pink

noun

A light rosy pink colour.

Meanings

nounmillennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

plural millennial pinks

  1. countableuncountableA light rosy pink colour.

    Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.

    2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23
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    […] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.

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

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

    2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76
adjectivemillennial pink (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a light rosy pink colour.

    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, […]

    2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine

Origin

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

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Chicago

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