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!
Same horror movies just don’t scare me. I don’t know why though. I used to be terrified as a child but then as the years went on I just kind of stopped caring and being affected
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I felt this one. I have never watched a horror movie or any type of scary movie. (Life is already terrifying if you pay attention..... so I really don't think my anxiety could handle a scary movie. And I'm not going to test it out!)
But they're not scary! The music telegraphs the intentions every time. When Alien (no.1, for those keeping count) a bunch of us went to see it in an almost empty theater. Some jerk decided to sit directly behind us (with the whole theater to choose from) and was offended that we were critiquing the film among us--we were 'ruining the suspense'. As one, 4 disgusted voices demanded 'WHAT suspense?' (We had an honest-to Ghu working special effects man with us, too. He wasn't impressed, either.
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Phew thank goodness I'm not a psychopath was worried for a second there😮😁
tho she's nice, but what if it's fake?!?! i'm scared now
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Absolutely NOT. People who watch scary movies and don't get nightmares are people without imagination and/or who are rational enough to realize it could never happen to them. No, actually, a true psychopath is someone who can watch the news for fun, and then sleep fine afterwards. (A true TEST of psychopathy is if the person can watch the movie "Up!" without crying :-)
But their the sane ones.. The insane ones watch Friends reruns
Guess I'm a psychopath...? I honestly don't think I've ever had a nightmare
Ummmm... me? I LOVE scary movies and sometimes sleep better after them. Lol, I’m called a psychopath by my classmates but I’m not that offended
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
