hipification

English

Etymology

From hip +‎ -ification.

Noun

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 The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 May 2025:

     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.