HYPEBEAST Definition & Meaning

hypebeast

[hahyp-beest]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Slang.

a person who avidly pursues trending fashions and newly released products in streetwear, primarily as signifiers of social prestige and financial means.
Only hypebeasts would be waiting outside the designer’s pop-up store at dawn in order to be first in line.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of hypebeast¹

First recorded in 2015–20; hype ¹ ( def. ) + beast ( def. )

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Oyewole didn’t think about golf again until several years later, when one of his friends invited him to the Hypegolf Invitational hosted by Hypebeast in Santa Clarita — an invitation he accepted begrudgingly, he says.

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They were an eccentric mix: aging hippies, hypebeast college kids and burners bundled in faux fur rainbow coats, swaying to guitar riffs.

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That was a random party that I think Hypebeast threw at the Berrics in L.A.

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Brooklyn Dom: It was the blueprint for Hypebeast and Complex.

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Is Timothée Chalamet a sensitive thespian or a swaggy hypebeast?

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hype hyped-up

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