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'm sorry, I get how they're trying to be funny with this, but I personally think the stereotype of bashing fathers as less attentive parents needs to go away. My own father was amazing (as is my mother). He was raised by an amazing father, and my brother is amazing with his children. I just don't see how "You must be a poor parent, you're a man" is acceptable and funny, compared to saying "You must be a poor parent, you're [insert race]" *picks up my soapbox*
Hey, my mom had the time to go shopping. Unless dad put it together, he found out what he got me on Christmas morning. (And he usually finished with construction about 3 AM, while we just about waited till he was asleep to wake up. Yet he got up and acted surprised at all the present 'Santa' left. And went back to sleep when we wound down again. It was a different time; fathers were schooled to be 'hands-off' types.)
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In my family it's the complete opposite my dad buys the gifts and s**t while my mom has no idea what's happening lol
I think my dad bought most of my gifts. In particular, any film with Goldie Hawn in. I say this only because after dinner he'd swipe it to watch first in my parents' bedroom.
It's a surprise for him too, hahaha. He gets to open it vicariously through the recipient.
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.
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
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
