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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Native -- a trendy bar in Singapore that made this year's Asia's 50 Best Bars list -- imports around 900 kilograms of ice from Kuramoto each year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Gap has staged a comeback, thanks in part to celebrity collaborations, trendy products and marketing that is resonating with consumers, The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Kapner reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
How a trendy Canadian retailer is grappling with Trump’s tariffs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Antoci and his wife, Josephine, bought the company in 2011 and transformed it into a trendy celebrity hot spot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
As true geeks, it was almost a point of pride to avoid one of the trendy enclaves most American kids would kill to get to.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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
Could Hackney's hipster-baiter ever concede that east London's trendies might, in the words of one n+1 contributor, remind us of "youth and daring and style, that we don't have any more or perhaps never did?"
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010
Still shakily insecure after the crash of '87, food trendies this year looked for safer culinary havens.
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
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
It was popular for decades and produced the country's first musical superstars, but has more recently struggled to compete with newer, trendier sounds, particularly with the global rise of K-pop.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Walmart WMT 0.42%increase; green up pointing triangle is leaning into trendier home goods that, in some cases, are more upscale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
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
For those who don’t necessarily care about Camus but seek an introductory look at how Existentialism came to be one of the 20th century’s trendiest outlooks, “The Stranger” is equally commendable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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 Chinatown has become one of L.A.’s trendiest dining destinations, its elderly immigrant residents live in a food desert, struggling to buy groceries easily and affordably.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
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