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Originally Posted by
Gordiep
I'll try to be a little bit more helpful...assuming that your post was genuine, and not some too-clever trolling effort.
You're getting hassled because the Aerospoke wheel (alongside the ironic t-shirt, aviator shades and skinny-pants) is now a metonymy for the excesses of fixter/hipster culture. QUOTE]
good one--ironically and metaphorically I think synechdoche is the correct term, not "metonymy"
metonymy: the ship plowed through the ocean
synecdoche: "can you lend me a hand," "aerospokes are hipster-ish"
Synecdoche is just restricted metonymy, specified to a trait. Metonymy is the broader term, and is generally used for non-specific instances, such as the one I posited. I recognize your "ship" example, and I'd advise you against relying in Wikipedia in these matters...but I appreciate your enthusiasm.
If "aerospoke" were popular slang for "hipster," then synecdoche would be proper. It's not, so the term I used is appropriate.