trustafarian
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
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
Examples
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.