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.
It cannot buy happiness, but it can sure stop you from suffering several kinds of misery!
and when you do have to suffer it can make you suffer more comfortably.
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Exactly what I say to people who quote that idiotic statement.
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Oh ... no... I ... kinda agree with this one... I think this is more accurate with "it can't buy **SOME** people happiness... " - me? Oh... I'm... pretty sure... "What about depression?" Oh... well...NOW I can PAY for THERAPY... "What about being lonely, or hating yourself??" - yeah... that's... where therapy and appropriate medications come in... "Well, your mom still hates you" - yes... more therapy! Guess what... therapy works...
No it can't. What's your money gonna buy, when the bankers call "BANKRUPTCY TIME" once again? Haven't you heard of the great depression, the great crash of the early 20th century?
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Money can't buy happiness. But money can buy ice cream. And ice cream is basically happiness.
you are already! It's called: planet of the apes 2019 after Jebus!
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Have been without a income for a few months and can't agree to that. Surely money is not the most important thing but I always felt frightened and s****y when I was short on it. Having a nice income with that you can live a good life will not make you happy, but - together with some other things - can make you feel safe.
It may not by me happiness but it would but me alot of things that will make me happy...like a real vacation, an italian gigolo, puppies....
Buys everything else so you can devote yourself to be as happy as posible
say it loud when you dead af broke and in bad situations over and over, if you live. You can be grateful and do things that are free. But we live in a Capitalist Society.
I'd love to test that theory, because I'm sure I could buy some happy
RANT (suite#2): What we need, as a species, is an inhabitable planet: air, water, land for the crops and the livestock. Then we need to make exchanges. We don't need money at all. ESPECIALLY if the money system is crooked and some leeches are getting bigger than the planet! If you don't believe me: please take all the money in the world and ship yourself to MARS, we keep the Earth, you keep the money! Deal? Oh, c'mon! I'll call ELON MUSK (MR. Rocketman) and reserve your place on his spaceship when it's built. Such a great deal! All the F*cking money in the world and you don't want it? Maybe you deserve to be poor then...HAHA! (that's a french laugh, it's not satirical, it's just the way we laugh). IGNORANCE IS BLISS, now you can cry, you know you've been fooled. The torture never stops, like Frank ZAPPA sang.
RANT (suite): This is the international bankers system, started by the ROTHSCHILD family in the time of Napoleon (the french conqueror). Rothschild pretended Napoleon had won the war (he hadn't) and that crashed the markets in Great Bitain, so he bought the whole country for a loaf of bread! He then placed his sons as international bankers everywhere in Europe. Today, the Rotschild family still owns the biggest share of the world, but what are they going to do, give it back? To whom? No, they're actually trying to make that money profitable, and are investing in Non-fossil fuels, funding different lobbies of anti-oilers in CANADA. So are they demons, no. They are just hairless apes like us, but their ancestor's crookery placed them on a very profitable square of the big MONOPOLY game were're playing. It's just a game, and at the end, everything returns to the box. They own the box, not you, you just run around in circles, waiting for the mony each turn, giving it back as you stroll..
RANT: 100% true, I feel pissed when I see a F*cking LIE. Here's the gist of it: MONEY is just part of a slavery system invented by mankind to force other clueless hairless apes (we share 99% of DNA with chimps, yeah, we're the hairless monkeys, just look at TRUMP the orange baboon and tell me about it) into having to WORK for subsistance, while they take what was once for all, for themselves, and then charge the other monkeys for it. YOU have all been enslaved, and happy about it because you know c**p about what the ECONOMY is really. The money system is a crook, you are paying a hidden tax, in order to have the right to use the money. The FEDERAL RESERVE is NOT a government agency: it is a PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY, that lends (at in interest rate) the money supply. USA is the capital, with the land and the people in it: that's the real values! So basically, you are letting go of your capital bit by bit, so when you've given everything back, you still owe the interests.
Yeah, dollars won't make you happy, but if you use those dollars to buy a puppy then...
don't buy a dog, breed it! Gather all your money in a bunch, sperm on it, and bingo! Oh wait, money doesn't have that power.... choooooo! Bad money, bad ape like creatures who worship human slavery system called MONEY! Mwawawawawa You are doomed! (cheap haunting sounds of a dismantled manor)
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Money can't buy happiness. It can reduce one's misery, but real happiness never. If you think differently, you are young and stupid.
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
