hipification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hip +‎ -ification

Noun[edit]

hipification (uncountable)

  1. (US, informal) The effects on a neighborhood of an influx of hipsters.
    • 2007 June 3, Allen Salkin, “Lower East Side Is Under a Groove”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      He is, in large part, responsible for the hipification (some may say the crassification) of the neighborhood, a district east of SoHo and south of the East Village.
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