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.
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.
Keep scrolling for more of our picks!
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.
I think that most of the time it's a roundabout attempt to ask "are you OK?" without actually coming out and asking. When I say that to someone I really mean "You look tired, is there something going on in your life I can help you with?"
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I don't necessarily take this as insulting. If it comes from a good friend this means they notice that something seems wrong and I take this as an invitation to share.
Women at work say this to me sometimes. Used to only say it when I wasn’t wearing makeup, now it’s every time they see me. I have always taken offense to this.
I hate that too. Sometimes people say this when you're really trying to look your best under difficult circ.......
I have several ‘invisible ‘’ chronic illnesses. I get “You look tired” a LOT. My response is “You have no idea how much makeup and time it took to only look *this* tired. 🙄😊
As someone who has several invisible chronic illnesses as well, I can totally relate. If I bothered to wear makeup, I would use your perfect response. It would be lovely if people would stop and consider how rude that statement sounds, especially if they are aware of the medical issues that are being dealt with. If they were to say that, but then follow it up with, “Is there anything I can do for you”, I could possibly overlook their comment.
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Its called getting old and working. I always have dark circles, thats also my complexion so why keep asking? Doesnt honestly seem out of real concern but a dig
I legit walked into a room and a girl that I don't really know that well just said, "You look dreadful."
I love this one. I used to ask a disliked workmate "Are feeling alright? You look so tired and off colour. Are you sure you should be here today?" Sure enough a couple of hours later that person would go home ill. Don't over do it - choose your moment.
or its called getting older and working. sad guys we dont use makeup so it shows more too.
If I say you look tired then that's what I mean. I have no problem telling you that you look like s**t!!!
Oh, my goodness. If there were such a reward for being ‘Completely Shallow & Insensitive’, you would most certainly win it.
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Why would anyone ever tell anyone this? If you're concerned about someone being too tired, you should just say they seem tired
Because it’s rude to tell someone they look like s***, Kaisu. That’s why society makes codes like this.
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Actually being polite gets confused with letting people walk all over you, these days. I am an extremely polite (old fashioned?) person, and people always mistake my actions (or lack of actions) for having no spine. -__-
Specially when you receive a bunch of one liner texts instead of a long one...
Doesn't irritate as much as it used to. I could get more pacific but I'm tired.
Or someone is watching you do something you are normally an expert in.
Meetings at work. Who is that guy at the head of the table that keeps interrupting?
Trying to remember the dream you had and then wondering if you even had a dream.
Also used by people you know you should keep your distance from for the sake of your mental health.
My best friend is so c**p that thankfully they stopped driving! Did try to relearn after a gap of years but the world is a much safer place with them off the roads.
I despise people like this. One of my friends does this often and it is infuriating
Not true. I'd happily cut one of mine out. Only in begrudging touch just to keep the other siblings happy.
When your amazon prime order is 8 stops away, then 1 stop away and then the driver starts driving to some other state then back to you.
Either I really did forget because my memory is absolute garbage or... hold on
The unofficial way to NOT tell someone you're no longer interested. Immature af
Looking at the photos of the Black Friday sales in the UK (ghost-ship like) they aren't even touching the clothes anymore.
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
