trendy
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Origin of trendy
Explanation
Trendy describes something that's stylish or popular, like skinny jeans or fancy coffee drinks. If your shoes are the newest, coolest kind of sneakers, they are trendy. If all of your neighbors seem to suddenly have Great Dane puppies, you can say that's a trendy dog breed in your neighborhood. Trendy is a relatively recent adjective, first formed in the mid-1960's from the noun trend, which originally meant "the way something bends," and later came to mean "general tendency."
Vocabulary lists containing trendy
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I’d been grabbing drinks after work with friends, going out to brunch on the weekends and trying all the trendy food spots for dinner.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026
Marwan al-Sheikh, 30, who now lives in a tent, remembered watching the previous World Cup with friends in Gaza's trendy cafes.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
Top-rated restaurants have opened in former factories, and more than a dozen trendy coffee shops dot the map.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The internet boom and the rise of trendy handheld devices and gadgets that came in a rainbow array of colorways feels like eons ago now.
From Salon • May 30, 2026
His portable oxygen is slung over his shoulder in that classic, trendy CFer-exercising style.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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