trustafarian

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Meaning · English

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).

Register: slang

Where it’s used: Used American English

Examples

"Today's punk-rocking population, paying $1500 a month in trustafarian scrip, doesn't

Quoted attestation: 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

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “trustafarian” mean?

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).

Is “trustafarian” formal or informal?

trustafarian is generally slang.