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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On Friday evenings, hundreds of people gather at Ponysaurus Brewing Co., a trendy spot in Durham, North Carolina, to savor its craft beers and cocktails, hardly the place you’d expect a school to open.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Around the time, it was trendy for people to wear squirt toys shaped like zoo animals as necklaces or keychains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In a world where “high leverage” is the trendy jargon, maybe a closer is more of an anachronism than a necessity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
When Meta first launched its AI-powered smart glasses in 2023, in collaboration with the trendy sunglasses brand Ray-Ban, it unleashed a storm of controversy.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
His portable oxygen is slung over his shoulder in that classic, trendy CFer-exercising style.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
By the early 80s psychobillies, soul boys, trendies, goths, skinheads, rockers, and mods all co-existed, often uneasily.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2015
Young trendies run it; even younger trendies sit at long tables sipping complicated coffees.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2014
It's drawn in an outlandish mix of posh English people, Brooklyn trendies and the type of bohemian kids that probably have a very big house nearby.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2011
In Manhattan's East Village, best explored with a bodyguard, the trendies dine at Cave Canem, a converted Turkish bathhouse serving a Roman feast, where the dance floor abuts a 7-ft. by 9-ft. pool.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scottsdale is a wealthy suburb of Phoenix, known as "Scottsdull" to scoffing local trendies, but well-equipped with posh shopping-malls and manicured lawns, while conspicuously undersupplied with homeless derelicts.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
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From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But on a call with analysts following results, CEO Brian Niccol focused on what he said was working for the company — trendier products, faster service and more food options.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Even with the low prices, business was good until around 2016, when I started seeing all the art galleries and trendier restaurants coming to the neighborhood,” Luu said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Plus, less-hyped or up-and-coming neighborhoods often offer apartments with more space and similar amenities, without the premium price tag of trendier areas.
From Salon ● May 25, 2025
He calls back, but I don't answer, because I'm on Facebook, looking at Tiny's profile, paging through his 1,532 friends, each cuter and trendier than the last.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
In the historic Japanese city of Kanazawa, craftsmen painstakingly shape and slice blocks of ice destined to chill negronis in some of the world's trendiest bars.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the styrofoam boxes of New York’s halal carts and the cast-iron dishware of its trendiest restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
But because the movie stars one of your favorite actors, and because it’s distributed by one of the hottest, trendiest distribution companies, you choose to see it anyway.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
It is still being widely shared, and is regularly played in the trendiest places in the country's major cities.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
As tourists celebrate the high-end vintage shops, the evocative street art and chic eateries of Roma Norte, one of Mexico City’s trendiest neighborhoods, Mariana de Miguel can’t help but resent its overcrowded nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
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