trendoid

English

Etymology

From trend +‎ -oid.

Noun

trendoid (plural trendoids)

  1. (informal) A person who follows fashion trends blindly.
    • 1993 August 24, Cynthia Robins, “Cyn City: They’re percolating at the Boogie Buffet: Breakfast crowd is not your lazy Sunday brunch bunch”, in San Francisco Examiner, 129th year, number 63, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-3, column 1:
      “Maybe a quarter of these people have been up all night,” says one of the Boogie Buffet’s organizers, a handsome trendoid named Paul Lamb, 30, whose vintage Moto Guzzi road bike is parked out front.
    • 2001 March 30, Ashok Chandwani, “Thailande a sure track to spicy bliss”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page D 12:
      Eager to make amends and fed up with the cheap noodleries, Chinese restaurants and pricey, trendoid Thai places that all claim to serve good food from that enchanted land but don’t, I returned to this old haunt with a favourite adventureress.
    • 2009 June 27, Murray Whyte, “Why Richard Florida's honeymoon is over”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      In the states, 99 per cent of my critics were socially conservative, right-wing people, who said I had a gay agenda, or that cities couldn't be built by `yuppies, sophistos, trendoids and gays,'" says Richard Florida.
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