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!
As long as you don't mumble around people who can't hear that well. People who mumble should be forced to listen to everything they've mumbled that day - on repeat and all night.
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Nah, "Ok, boomer" is more like "Yeah, whatever, a*****e" but towards a specific age group.
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Oh my gosh I do this all of the time! Or I’m just like, “Wait, that’s stupid, I won’t say it.”
Sometimes it’s the fault of the person who is doing the explaining, not the person who is receiving the message. Not everyone thinks the same. In addition, if someone is truly interested in getting their point across, as well as wanting to be a good communicator, they should understand that there is more than one way to go about explaining something. As someone who suffered a traumatic brain injury due to a car accident, and then 15 years later suffered a stroke, sometimes things don’t make sense to me. Thankfully I have a supportive family and friends who understand that they may need to go about explaining things in a different manner in order for me to grasp the point that they are trying to make. Some of them have told me that even though they are sad that those things happened to me, they’ve come to be better communicators because of it. Some of the comments regarding this are very disheartening and show complete disregard for others and their needs.
Could be that as you explain it gets to be stupid, no need to continue
I'm sorry, but you don't have the right to call me out like that. It's soooooo frustrating when that happens.
and I don't have the patience to repeat it again...So never mind!
Perhaps the person who is speaking is simply a poor communicator. Pair that with being impatient and it’s a recipe for needless frustration.
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You're too rigid to hear what I'm trying to say. I can't be bothered to repeat myself.
Perhaps the person isn’t being rigid and you’re simply a poor communicator. There is always room for self-improvement.
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Usually when I say 'never mind' or 'whatever' I don't really mean it. I do care. Yep, I'm a complicated person .-.
Too much effort to make you understand, from your level of stupid!
Or perhaps it’s the one trying to make their point who is stupid & inconsiderate. To assume that it’s the fault of the person who is receiving the information, is simply ridiculous.
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I always hate it, but I only really ever had the tolerance to say the same thing three times.
If the person that you’re explaining something to doesn’t understand the point you’re trying to make, then perhaps it’s you who is the poor communicator. Self-reflection is sometimes necessary.
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You must be a nightmare to work for. I feel sorry for your employees that they have such an egotistical and rigid boss.
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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
