Hipification

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The effects on a neighborhood of an influx of hipsters. US, informal, uncountable

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From hip + -ification.

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