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hypebeast

American  

[hahyp-beest] / ˈhaɪpˌbist /

noun

Slang.

• hypebeasts
  plural

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.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hypebeasts
  plural

Etymology

Origin of hypebeast

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

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For this feature we wondered: If you could create the perfect L.A. hypebeast, what would they look like?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

A Queens hypebeast falls for a Manhattan rich girl in “Sneakerella,” the latest rehashed fairy tale to be foisted upon audiences.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

There’s a wait list for the Nikes your hypebeast boyfriend has been coveting.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2021

Jesus Shoes are hypebeast culture incarnate — there’s nothing more #rare than walking on water.

From The Verge ● Oct. 22, 2019

His newfound status as a hypebeast has him rethinking that.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2019

Do the hypebeasts of Fairfax like “Fairfax”? Is the block hot because of it in a good sense or bad?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022

And the crowd in this millionaires’ party was noticeably less white than I expected, reminiscent of the Supreme store line crowd of nerds, hypebeasts, and hustlers — diverse but without very many Black people.

From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2021

In the late 1980s and early ’90s, long before hypebeasts spent hours waiting for coveted drops outside the Supreme store in SoHo, skaters assembled at a smaller shop on Lafayette Street.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

But, unlike hipsters, who valued a kitschy thrift-store eclecticism, hypebeasts are obsessed with chasing whatever is newest, and they are happy to spend enormous sums to get it.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2018

The league needs middle-aged men as much as they need hypebeasts who spend most of their day in line in front of the Supreme store.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2016