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

The pink-haired Grimes dances and smiles in a heavy coat or a Hypebeast hoodie at football games and motorsports events, looking like a visitor from another planet among hordes of shirtless, rowdy men who treat the phenomenon of realizing you’re on camera with something like novelty.

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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.

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

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

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

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