hypebeast

[hahyp-beest]

noun

Slang.

1. a person who avidly pursues trending fashions and newly released products in streetwear, primarily as signifiers of social prestige and financial means.

   Only hypebeasts would be waiting outside the designer’s pop-up store at dawn in order to be first in line.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypebeast¹

First recorded in 2015–20; hype ¹ ( def. ) + beast ( def. )

Example Sentences

Oyewole didn’t think about golf again until several years later, when one of his friends invited him to the Hypegolf Invitational hosted by Hypebeast in Santa Clarita — an invitation he accepted begrudgingly, he says.

From Los Angeles Times

They were an eccentric mix: aging hippies, hypebeast college kids and burners bundled in faux fur rainbow coats, swaying to guitar riffs.

From Los Angeles Times

That was a random party that I think Hypebeast threw at the Berrics in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times

Brooklyn Dom: It was the blueprint for Hypebeast and Complex.

From Los Angeles Times

Is Timothée Chalamet a sensitive thespian or a swaggy hypebeast?

From Slate