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trustafarian

trustafarian noun: someone who espouses an alternative lifestyle, but lives off inherited wealth. A young person with the fashion sensibilities of a hippie, or any other countercultural trend, especially anarchism, Maoism, or punk rock, who subscribes to an unemployed, shiftless life of hedonism based upon a substantial amount of inherited money (a trust fund).

Noun

trustafarian (plural trustafarians)

  1. (slang) Someone who espouses an alternative lifestyle, but lives off inherited wealth. A young person with the fashion sensibilities of a hippie, or any other countercultural trend, especially anarchism, Maoism, or punk rock, who subscribes to an unemployed, shiftless life of hedonism based upon a substantial amount of inherited money (a trust fund).
    • "Today's punk-rocking population, paying $1500 a month in trustafarian scrip, doesn't under-stand German, much less Yiddish."2003, Kate Gardner, Meat Me in Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to New York http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0970312571&id=wQt-LEMEezUC&pg=RA13-PT21&lpg=RA13-PT21&dq=trustafarian&sig=wicOp5oWIhv63G...
    • I'm your typical trustafarian, I'm afraid: spoilt little rich kid living the dream off his inheritance.2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 425

trustafarian meaning in Tamil

trustafarian in Tamil

நம்பகமானவர்

Forms of trustafarian

pluraltrustafarians

Origin of trustafarian

Blend of trust fund + Rastafarian.

Questions about trustafarian

What does trustafarian mean?
Trustafarian means someone who espouses an alternative lifestyle, but lives off inherited wealth. A young person with the fashion sensibilities of a hippie, or any other countercultural trend, especially anarchism, Maoism, or punk rock, who subscribes to an unemployed, shiftless life of hedonism based upon a substantial amount of inherited money (a trust fund).
What is trustafarian in Tamil?
Trustafarian in Tamil is நம்பகமானவர். See Trustafarian meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trustafarian?
Trustafarian is a noun.
What is the plural of trustafarian?
The plural of trustafarian is trustafarians.

Words near trustafarian in the dictionary

  1. trust-funder
  2. trust-funders
  3. trustability
  4. trustable
  5. trustably
  6. trustafarian
  7. trustafarians
  8. trustbuster
  9. trustbusters
  10. trustbusting
  11. trusted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trustafarian (page history and authors); trustafarian (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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