trustafarian

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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).

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Meanings

nountrustafarian (plural trustafarians)

plural trustafarians

  1. slangSomeone 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).

    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
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    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."

Origin

Blend of trust fund + Rastafarian.

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APA

trustafarian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trustafarian

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“trustafarian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trustafarian. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trustafarian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trustafarian.

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