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millennial pink

millennial pink noun: a light rosy pink colour.

millennial pink: a light rosy pink colour
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Noun

millennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

  1. A light rosy pink colour.
    • Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23
    • […] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page

Adjective

millennial pink (not comparable)

  1. Of a light rosy pink colour.
    • But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine

Forms of millennial pink

pluralmillennial pinks

Origin of millennial pink

Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Questions about millennial pink

What does millennial pink mean?
Millennial pink means a light rosy pink colour.
What part of speech is millennial pink?
Millennial pink can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of millennial pink?
The plural of millennial pink is millennial pinks.

Words near millennial pink in the dictionary

  1. millennial gray
  2. millennial grey
  3. millennial humor
  4. millennial pause
  5. millennial pauses
  6. millennial pink
  7. millennial pinks
  8. millennial whoop
  9. millennial whoops
  10. millennialism
  11. millennialisms

Source and license

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