This ‘Dictionary’ Has Already Amassed 2.4M Followers Because Of Its Honest Word Definitions (New Pics)
You might remember HipDict, the crowdsourced dictionary that defines what we’re really saying when we use everyday words, or maybe you’re already following it. The account on Instagram is still going strong with over 2 million followers and enough submissions to post every day.
HipDict has gained its large following by telling it like it really is... or, well, like it really is for someone out there on Instagram, if some of the definitions have you scratching your head.
After all, the content posted by the account is user-submitted, which means that you too can send them a message offering up your best definitions if you’re feeling inspired after reading this list.
Here are some of our picks, scroll down and upvote your favorites!
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HipDict isn’t the first platform compiling how we bend language to our liking. In the 00s, the crowdsourced dictionary format took off with Urban Dictionary, which, over its 20-year lifespan, has served as a repository for everything from slang definitions that have been presented to juries in a court of law, to incomprehensible inside jokes.
Teacher "notice how the school bully went from misfortune to misfortune and eventually died a terrible death. The author did this to show that wicked deeds always catch up to you in the end. Author "Actually I just hated that character and her suffering made me happy".
There is a pretty famous author named Friedrich Schiller in Germany and nearly every school kid has to read a book of his during their school time. The day I learned he sniffed at some kind of rotten apples to get high before writing his books explained so much. Maybe the colors of the curtains mentioned in the book meant something meaningful - maybe he was just high and saw some pretty colors...
Nothing ruins a book quicker than having to read it as an assignment for a class.
Teacher: Today we will be watching Harry Potter! Class:Yay! *Every one watched but the teacher pauses the movie 8 minutes in* Teacher: Now write a 8 paragraph essay about the difference between the book and movie!
you can write a whole new book pointing out the differences 😂
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Truer words were never spoken. A related point: they mindlessly assign kids to read The Catcher In The Rye. I think that is a great book, but the unthinking assignment of which seems like exactly the sort of thing the protagonist of which was criticizing.
no its literally true though. my friend and i are writing a novel and i got our teacher to skim over a part where the antagonist is being her usual toxic self and she was like "i love how you included a backstory as to why she acts this way, showing how her horrible experiences impacted her views." and we were just like "no we just hated her and wanted her to die."
My AP English teacher in high school was obsessed with phallic symbols. There was an obscure reference to a pickle dish in Madame Bovary that supposedly explained the entire plot. She also hated sci-fi and immediately discounted the grade of someone who liked it. Like me. I was lucky to get a decent grade in that class.
And shame you just because you don’t f*****g know who E.B. f*****g White is.
Nope, they don't understand it so make up things to fool their students
Can confirm this is indeed the case for many authors--I'm an editor at a publishing company. XD
Not only English teachers. All native language teachers do that :D
English teachers are like Spanish teachers, only they teach English.
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You know, I never thought of this. Writing is so isolating and individual. If the message is there, the reader will get it.
The author's thoughts about their writing are about as relevant as a chef's beliefs about their food. All that matters is the consumers thoughts and feelings. Analyzing those is never bad. Just like any academic, the analysis of their subject matted leads to knowledge beyond initial impressions ... which are still very interesting and valid, but why stop there?
I have a few and only one I'd let have a kidney - that's how unpleasant some of my family are.
Most of the entries on HipDict, in contrast, seem almost like a reversal of the dictionary format, where the humor is in the definitions: experiences we associate with mundane concepts.
And just like the platforms before it that let us show how we use our creative license with language, it functions mostly as a place for expressing opinions or observations in a recognizable format.
While it is styled like a dictionary in the broadest sense, you might end up covering your eyes and screaming if you look at it with any background in lexicography (that’s not a verb… starting a definition with ‘when’? Oh dear g-)
But that’s okay. If these entries make you laugh and want to submit your own, HipDict has done its job.
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I hate that statement. If I look like s**t or tired, why even say anything. It's clear one already knows. It's not helpful at all.
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Could relate to nearly all of them. I love this kind of posts in Bored Panda.
You should check out “the dictionary of received ideas” by Gustave Flaubert and “The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce. Very similar material to this post...some of the pop culture in the book’s satirical definitions are obviously dated due to both being written or published in the late 19 th century but are hilarious all the same
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Petition to get this published and used as our primary source of words!
A bird is insearch of food, in a way to find lost ones or else suffering due to ill but still we will think how beautiful it is when dey fly in air bcoz we are unaware of that story
Could relate to nearly all of them. I love this kind of posts in Bored Panda.
You should check out “the dictionary of received ideas” by Gustave Flaubert and “The Devil’s Dictionary” by Ambrose Bierce. Very similar material to this post...some of the pop culture in the book’s satirical definitions are obviously dated due to both being written or published in the late 19 th century but are hilarious all the same
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A bird is insearch of food, in a way to find lost ones or else suffering due to ill but still we will think how beautiful it is when dey fly in air bcoz we are unaware of that story
