hipification en · NOUN
Etymology
From hip + -ification.
Meanings
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(US, informal, uncountable) The effects on a neighborhood of an influx of hipsters.
He is, in large part, responsible for the hipification (some may say the crassification) of the neighborhood, a district east of SoHo and south of the East Village.
2007 June 3, Allen Salkin, “Lower East Side Is Under a Groove”, in New York Times: