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!
Does F**K really need to be censored? It wasn't when it was posted originally?
It shouldn't be. If people can't cope with seeing swear words than they can leave this site and go somewhere fluffy instead.
Load More Replies...My all time favourite - it really is f*****g amazing.
Load More Replies...The only part of speech some people know. adjective adverb verb noun preposition gerund conjunction
It's a noun. It's a verb. It's an adjective! Whatever you need it to be, it's right there with you
Boondock saints: “- Rocco: F****n'! What the f****n'. F**k. Who the f**k f****d this f*****g... How did you two f*****g f***s... F**k! - Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.”
"This f*cking f*cker is f*cking f*cked, is the problem!", is how my plumber once clarified the issues we were having.
The only word word in the English language that can be a noun, verb, adverb and adjective. Also, the only word most current singers know! Children, it's found in the bible. Get over it.
Can you give me chapter and verse of where F*ck is found in the Bible?
Load More Replies...i use f**k to my crush even tho he is ugly plus he doesn't know i like him
Actually, I think it's an adjective, not a noun. At least the way it's used here, and how it's generally used in conversation. Interestingly, it can also be a verb or a noun. Add 'ly' and it can become an adverb!
The only word that is a verb, noun, adverb, adjective, etc.... it's an all-in-one word.
only in the english language though. In other languages, it's very much a 'missed in translation' situation if trying to translate such phrases literally. I learned that the hard way when telling my french boyfriend "f**k you", literally translated, during an argument. It made such little sense, he cracked up laughing, which made me madder, but stopped the argument. Turns out that in french, it's a much longer phrase, and just doesn't have the same impact. Ah, the joys of multilingualism.
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
Load More Replies...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
Load More Replies...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