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."
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Brundo is asking $15 million for the property that spans more than an acre on the edge of Melrose Hill, a niche neighborhood at Melrose and Western avenues known for its trendy restaurants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
And is this really diversification, or am I just making a huge bet on a trendy theme?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
But many disused mills and factories have given way to apartment blocks, trendy cafes and co-working spaces.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
My bedroom was decked out in white wicker furniture and a trendy daybed.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
By the early 80s psychobillies, soul boys, trendies, goths, skinheads, rockers, and mods all co-existed, often uneasily.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2015
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
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
The intrepid Japanese designers show their stuff in Paris; so do the haut trendies like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Claude Montana.
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
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
Over time, Pizza Hut's market has been sliced up and distributed to its trendier, more nimble rivals.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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
“Going to the trendiest place isn’t going to give you the best food or best atmosphere.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
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
LAS VEGAS—The newest lounge at Harry Reid International Airport serves lobster rolls and avocado toast, and its bartenders mix cocktails worthy of the trendiest bars on The Strip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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
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