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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It depends on who your flatmate is. At the moment I'm sharing with one of the dirtiest people on the whole universe, do you can never trust anything she has touched
My cat, like a lot of cats, follows me into the bathroom. I have a litter box in there. Logical, right? Well, if I'm in there taking care of business, she will sometimes also take care of business. Synchro-pooping! I have to wait for her to finish, though, including the digging to China, before I can get up, wash my hands and leave. She'll think that if I'm done, she's supposed to be done too, so she'll run off mid-poop, mid-dig, or mid-scratching at the cupboard door that helps so much with burying the evidence.
Introverts unite...but separately in our own houses.
Load More Replies...Nope it was always a blessing. Oh how I dread going outside and being in the general vicinity of humans
Really depends on why you were staying home. I liked staying home a lot as a kid, like... from school for instance.
I'd say it's like a poor reason to justify something. It can be a fun reason to do something (like the effort to make a traditional meal at xmas or whatever)
Load More Replies...You ask “why?” The famous composer Gustav Mahler supposedly said this about tradition. “It is not the adoration of the ashes, but the passing on of the fire.” Tradition’s value comes from knowing the backstory. Only if the backstory loses relevance should the tradition should fade away as well.
Load More Replies..."Tradition": A song from "Fiddler on the Roof". Better than "Matchmaker, Matchmaker", but not as good as "If I Were a Rich Man".
When I see posts about "traditions" I end up thinking of that song pretty often, especially the part where Tevye talks about how the Jewish people wear certain things in devotion to God, then says "how did we get this tradition? I'll tell you! .... I don't know."
Load More Replies...Tradition - Something that often goes way out of touch with the times, so is meant to be broken.
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.
Etc: can't remember other examples but I want to pretend I know more while writing on this exam
Ha, I had a boss once who ended his instructions with a double etc etc. It annoyed the c**p out of me. If you don't know what you want, just say so.
Maybe it's a term to make people think something extra for themselves. If everything is spelled out, people quit listening.
Teacher "notice how the school bully went from misfortune to misfortune and eventually died a terrible death. The author did this to show that wicked deeds always catch up to you in the end. Author "Actually I just hated that character and her suffering made me happy".
There is a pretty famous author named Friedrich Schiller in Germany and nearly every school kid has to read a book of his during their school time. The day I learned he sniffed at some kind of rotten apples to get high before writing his books explained so much. Maybe the colors of the curtains mentioned in the book meant something meaningful - maybe he was just high and saw some pretty colors...
Nothing ruins a book quicker than having to read it as an assignment for a class.
Teacher: Today we will be watching Harry Potter! Class:Yay! *Every one watched but the teacher pauses the movie 8 minutes in* Teacher: Now write a 8 paragraph essay about the difference between the book and movie!
you can write a whole new book pointing out the differences 😂
Load More Replies...Truer words were never spoken. A related point: they mindlessly assign kids to read The Catcher In The Rye. I think that is a great book, but the unthinking assignment of which seems like exactly the sort of thing the protagonist of which was criticizing.
I have a few and only one I'd let have a kidney - that's how unpleasant some of my family are.
As a middle child I hope that both of my siblings will have healthy kidneys because I wouldn't like to choose since I couldn't give them both.. 🤷♀️
I like my brother, but I'd rather give him a charger than my kidney. Luckily he has an iPhone and I have a Samsung so it doesn't matter anyway.
My sis and I would sacrifice our life for each other. But we will fight to the death if I use her iPad or she eats my snacks.
I have four siblings - three brothers and one sister. I only have two kidneys.
I don’t have siblings but I’d never give a kidney to anyone if I could help it
Let us hope that you will never find yourself in need of a kidney transplant then. My dad gave me a great lesson when I was around 7 or 8 yrs old. He stopped to pick up a young couple who were hitchhiking. After they had thanked him profusely they said that they would not have stopped for anyone on that lonely forest road. My dad first made sure that he had understood them correctly, then he stopped the car and told them to get out. Do to others what you would like them to do to you, but kind of in reverse.
Load More Replies...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.
or ... "go away because you are too stupid to recognize sarcasm"
Load More Replies...Depends on respondent gender. Female = you're in serious trouble. Male - fine.
Also "I've realized having this argument with you is pointless since you're too stupid to understand logic".
For me, it's more like, "so we don't agree but I'll go suffer quietly". This was my usual response to my parents asking me to do chores.
Again, this just saves a lot of time but can't change anything real . . .
My late ex husband. It wasn't so much the arguments ( there were plenty). It was more like a 30 year total mismatch.
Why did you censor it? Everyone knows behind there. We can also write it in the comments. S**t
if you censor stuff because you think theres kids on here, what if i told you that kids start knowing these words these days since they're seven years old? what if i told you that never has a single day passed at school without a student (or teacher) swearing out loud?
It's funny that the first "b******t" is visible and the second one is pixeled! :D
Someone who somehow gets you home when you're slobbering drunk!
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...Nah, "Ok, boomer" is more like "Yeah, whatever, a*****e" but towards a specific age group.
Load More Replies...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.
Trite platitudes have been with us since the first caveman said more than "Ugh. Food." This is one of those I love to hate.
I hate this saying because of my past. SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT MY BIG BRO RAPE ME FOR A REASON! WHY THE F**K DID HE DO IT THEN! EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A F*****G REASON!!!! YEAH RIGHT! B******T
Everything does not happen for a reason and I'm sick of people saying it does.
Am I the only person in the world who doesn't find him attractive? He seems like a really nice and generous person, but I personally am not attracted to him
Most people seem to be missing the meme reference here unfortunately.
Load More Replies...If this is true, my Dad was all of my siblings' best friend. My Dad would rarely compliment any of us to our face, but when we were not present, he would sing our praises to anyone else present. He talked IN FRONT of people's backs :-) He actually thought he was doing us a favor by laying into us, because he believed in us and wanted to be the best we could be, but he was super proud of us. It didn't really quite work, but we all eventually figured out where his heart lay.
And not having that sinking feeling in your stomach on a Sunday evening.
I'm retired. That means never replacing the alarm clock when it broke!
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.)
Load More Replies...My friend finishes every message with this. BUT, her name starts with K.
Someone downvoted yours, I'm not sure why. So I upvoted to even them out. People! There's nothing wrong with this comment!!!
Load More Replies...My dad responds to texts with "K" a lot of the time as a confirmation and it always makes me a little nervous.
Disagree. You have a whole myriad of problems being single as well
Someone special to drive you insane+who you can drive insane too
Not my fridge - but I'm guessing that's your two sons again!
Load More Replies...I don't have Instagram, but I'm guilty of doing this with my Youtube subscriptions.
like a fridge… look great from the outside but on the Inside it's dirty bro
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
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...Phew thank goodness I'm not a psychopath was worried for a second there😮😁
I read this in a British accent and then I remembered you’re Aussie (right?) and I was like, whoops!
Load More Replies...Sometimes I do it, but then I end up waking up at like, 11 or so and I can't get back to sleep as easily.
Haven't seen each other for 17 years but can pick up where you left off.
That's s****y. I don't have many friends now, but I like reliable people.
Lol, I came here to say the same thing about fam. It's like, don't say I didn't warn ya bout doing that opposite jazz. But I'm also like, yah I'm also here for ya.
Load More Replies...I don't mind if someone does not act on my advice. They are the one who have to deal with the consequences . What I can't stand is when they ask and then try to argue about the advice.
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.”
Slang for, I like you enough to hang out with you but it will never actually happen
'hang' is a word with more than one meaning. From a noose is good
Or when everyone is singing happy birthday to you and you join in
Load More Replies...This is the best and easiest definition of word 'awkward'. Sums up pretty good what it's about.
When you see someone waving at you and you wave back, only to find out they weren’t waving at you in the first place. Or the converse; when someone’s waving at you and you ignore them because you don’t recognize them, only they then come up to you and start talking like you’re old friends—-yet you still don’t recognize them.
I do this so much. And then I’m just like, “Welp. Let the awkward silence commence.”
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.
I think that most of the time it's a roundabout attempt to ask "are you OK?" without actually coming out and asking. When I say that to someone I really mean "You look tired, is there something going on in your life I can help you with?"
Load More Replies...I don't necessarily take this as insulting. If it comes from a good friend this means they notice that something seems wrong and I take this as an invitation to share.
Women at work say this to me sometimes. Used to only say it when I wasn’t wearing makeup, now it’s every time they see me. I have always taken offense to this.
I hate that too. Sometimes people say this when you're really trying to look your best under difficult circ.......
I have several ‘invisible ‘’ chronic illnesses. I get “You look tired” a LOT. My response is “You have no idea how much makeup and time it took to only look *this* tired. 🙄😊
As someone who has several invisible chronic illnesses as well, I can totally relate. If I bothered to wear makeup, I would use your perfect response. It would be lovely if people would stop and consider how rude that statement sounds, especially if they are aware of the medical issues that are being dealt with. If they were to say that, but then follow it up with, “Is there anything I can do for you”, I could possibly overlook their comment.
Load More Replies...Its called getting old and working. I always have dark circles, thats also my complexion so why keep asking? Doesnt honestly seem out of real concern but a dig
I legit walked into a room and a girl that I don't really know that well just said, "You look dreadful."
I love this one. I used to ask a disliked workmate "Are feeling alright? You look so tired and off colour. Are you sure you should be here today?" Sure enough a couple of hours later that person would go home ill. Don't over do it - choose your moment.
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.
Load More Replies...Exactly what I say to people who quote that idiotic statement.
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Load More Replies...For me it's more like "I don't want to say LOL because it doesn't fit my personality unless I'm quoting a meme."
More polite: oh, yes; I always liked that one/found it funny.
Load More Replies...Liam, that's because in the US after solving one problem we walk a way. You guys must stay and solve more ;-D
Load More Replies...math is like abuse to human cuz is like you want to do something but you can't cuz you have to do homework of math and is abuse lol
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. -__-
I don't think it's that rare. Then again... I am Canadian. Seriously, 9 times out of 10 if two people run into each other by accident, both apologize more than once.
Specially when you receive a bunch of one liner texts instead of a long one...
I actually prefer the one liner texts since I can read them at a glance and don't need to focus. When I see a long one it makes me want to ignore it.
Load More Replies...*Puts the phone down after you think it's the last text. . .phone buzzes again. OMG. Stop, lol.*
Or she forgets where she put them when cleaning so everyone goes on a scavenger hunt
I borrowed this statement from an earlier post about moms and their answers to questions. My go-to for the question, "Have you seen...do you know where...." is, "If I get out of this chair and find what it is you're looking for easily I'll beat you with it!"
I actually thought I would get this superpower when I had kids. 3 kids later it still is missing. I want a refund!
Or us moms when we have to start cleaning our houses for holiday company and your next door neighbor says the same thing.
I'm the only one and there are so many arguments over the stupidest things that it makes me want to jump out a window
Honestly, not being single is something that kind of frightens me because it's such an unknown thing (for me, that is)
Doesn't irritate as much as it used to. I could get more pacific but I'm tired.
Hahaha - colleague at work did that one a lot. Some things you have to just let go...
Load More Replies...I'm the person who points out grammar mistakes and I feel bad about it a lot, but honestly, it's kind of hard not to do at times
Both internships I didn't get a "paycheck" I got an educational stipend instead, which means tax free in the US
One of the tech companies pays $90k for a summer internship
Load More Replies...I am almost 32 and sometimes treated this way. Not considered a full adult by some because I haven’t had kids yet. And obviously anyone under 30 thinks I’m “old.”
I just thought everyone was annoying because they talked so much- now they talk for me so I've grown to live with it
Or someone is watching you do something you are normally an expert in.
I go full r******d when someone is watching me working.
Load More Replies...Or pretty much anything where you are under pressure or trying to concentrate on
Gives brain freeze a more direct meaning. Even though its it's used when eating something cold.
Nah - suddenly I found housework infinitely more appealing. Would use any legitimate seeming excuse.
Load More Replies...Yeah, also "looking at stuff on the internet that you'd otherwise consider a waste of time" IMO.
What so many college freshman who don't really know what they want to do, are majoring in at the moment.
Costing you money you could surely use to fix it once and for all, in less time.
Most connectors have the USB logo on one side of the connector, that's how you know which way is the right way.
Most of these are phrased really awkwardly, yours is much better!
Load More Replies...I enjoyed research papers. Had trouble trusting my imagination for papers that were not fact/book based. I still agree with this “definition.”
since i was kid, it was "My Boyfriends Back - The Angels", i found out at 2018
That happens a lot with classical music, especially since the majority of it is just titled like [Composition] for [instrument(s)] in [Key].
*corrected spelling/grammar* (sorry) = someone who thinks it's okay to correct every typo and 'just had to' even though they didn't.
Load More Replies...Meetings at work. Who is that guy at the head of the table that keeps interrupting?
Person paid too much who usually knows the least.
Load More Replies...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.
That's not a joke by the way. The danish term Bæ is actually a somewhat childish way to say poop
Is preferable to poop. Adults saying poop sound weird to people in the UK.
Load More Replies...I feel like that's what constitutes "shy". At least, that's why I consider myself shy.
Depend on where you get them. If the hens have a rooster it is most likely fertilized. I have bought eggs,in store from a fridge, put it under one of my hens and had chickens :)
Load More Replies...The eggs we eat are not embryos. As far as I know, only sturgeon would fit this definition as caviar are viable eggs harvested from dead mothers. #Pedantrylevel3000
dude, quit getting all scientificy and just roll with it...
Load More Replies...Wrong. Eggs are not chicken fetus. In Argentina, sometimes ate pre-natal cows, and cows. Weird, but true.
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.
That would be my husband. I just pray a lot and think if there's anything I haven't repented of.
Perhaps you should drive. You can choose to take a risk with your husband driving but other road users can't.
Load More Replies...I'm the kind of website that's slow because you have to open it in Tor browser.
Or for me "A nonsense phrase that isn't grammatically correct and apparently comes from one of the Avengers movies".
or : how are you today? People expect you to answer : i'm fine. they Don't want to hear if you're not well
Sales people who call... 'how are you today?' I enjoy telling them.
Load More Replies...But not in Disney +. Husband for the first time said he watched the first 3 episodes without me. He must have read this and assumed only Netflix counts.
I despise people like this. One of my friends does this often and it is infuriating
There's a lot to unpack here, but I'll just say that Yahweh in the Bible is a real sanctimonious a*****e and the causing people to die was totally on purpose.
Not true. I'd happily cut one of mine out. Only in begrudging touch just to keep the other siblings happy.
I don't think I've ever been "enemies" with my brother, except for maybe when he was mean to my parents as a teen. Overall we have a good relationship, but not a lot of similar interests. This definition is accurate if you're like... Dante or Vergil from Devil May Cry?
or gives you $10 for carrying a few boxes inside [Thanks Mimi :)]
Load More Replies...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
More like "I tried studying, but I really just ended up reading a bit in between internet browsing. Yet it still felt stressful."
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.
Again, not really a definition, which strains my enjoyment of this medium of humour
Yeah, even if it wasn't a weird pseudo-sexist comment, it's just a sentence not formatted into a definition.
Load More Replies...I find shopping boring. Unless you say we're going to the Apple store, and I can get something, I'll be up in my room trying to find a way to glue myself in bed.
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!
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!
