trustafarian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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).
Slang
Example Sentences
- "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=wicOp5oWIhv63G3Ocejx7eOsyro "Today's punk-rocking population, paying $1500 a month in trustafarian scrip, doesn't under-stand German, much less Yiddish.""
- "I'm your typical trustafarian, I'm afraid: spoilt little rich kid living the dream off his inheritance."