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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A person who salvages and consumes food that has been thrown away, especially one who wishes to protect the environment and challenge consumerism via waste reduction.
Etymologies
- Blend of free and vegan (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Tristram Stuart-a journalist, campaigner, and "freegan" - is the guide on a journey along the food chain.”
“Some adhere to a so-called freegan diet: any food that's free.”
“For those new to the term (free + vegan), a freegan is a person who has decided to boycott capitalist society by severely curtailing consumption of resources through reusing, recycling and Dumpster diving.”
“As it turns out, being a freegan is a lonely existence.”
“Well, we're going to ask a so - called freegan in our 10: 00 a.m. Eastern hour.”
“Of the remaining words on the Telegraph list, some (such as freegan, griefer, and nonversation) have their own entries in Merriam-Webster's”
“St. Michael's college students 'film showcases' freegan 'lifestyle”
“The leader of the left-anarchists is also a "freegan," which means he eats garbage from dumpsters.”
“The "freegan" lifestyle (less charitably called "dumpster diving") is one end of a spectrum of such possibilities.”
“She was a freegan, meaning she didn't pay for anything unless absolutely necessary.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘freegan’.
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polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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kad's Words
caliph, sylvain, slither, rebbe, sverdrup, vapid, onus, atavistic, cathexis, acathexis, kludge, lithe and 97 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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beautiful words
flesher, yakka, simnel, larrikin, petrific, parlando, sol-fa, acharnement, sunn, punctum, inflatus, exinanition and 14 more...
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The Free List
Words using the word 'free'...
freemason, freeway, freedom, fat-free, free-flowing, free weight, free fall, free time, freeload, freeware, freegan
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No thanks, I'm on a diet
Interesting/noteworthy food intake regimens.
locavore, proxivore, opportunivore, freegan, vegan, vegetarian, fruitarian, kosher, halal, okinawa, south beach, atkins and 11 more...
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The List of Words
My list of words and the like.
contemptation, willow, longcat, shiny, watchan, esquivalience, kewl, amidoinitrite, lock pick, locksmith, half diamond, pattern interrupt and 71 more...
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PWNED!!
A new place for me to store all those instances of rapier wit and awesome bon mots I come across.
freegan, suit, funding, false dichotomy, pay out, celebrity media, metro walk, silent stars, wernher von braun, child, psychotic dogs, alcohol and 24 more...
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dumb neologisms
webinar, blog, staycation, prosumer, blogosphere, podcast, phishing, pharming, incentivize, ballinest, beaulicious, bennifer and 53 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for freegan.
bilby "Freeganism is a somewhat ill-defined activity that is best thought of as a subset of the larger anti-capitalist and environmental protest movements. Its origins go back to the Sixties and the embrace of alternative, anti-consumerist lifestyles, though Stuart claims that there is also a powerful inspiration for it in the Gandhian idea of non-violent action. In the US especially, freegans are often called dumpster divers, though many freegans insist that the practice of extracting food from dustbins represents only one strand of what they do; other freegan practices include co-operative living, squatting and freecyling, or matching things that people want to get rid of with things other people need."
- William Skidelsky, The freegans' creed: waste not, want not, guardian.co.uk, 19 July 2009. Jul 20, 2009
skipvia "People are strange."
Jim Morrison Mar 1, 2008
chained_bear "America the Over-Stored," by Daniel Gross, Newsweek, Feb. 25, 2008:
"Working 60 hours per week and chasing job promotion 'for the sake of buying the latest crap off the Sharper Image store shelf is no way to live,' says Adam Weissman, spokesperson for freegan.info. (Hey, dude, one might say the same about diving into Dumpsters in search of day-old bread and discarded futons.)"
Disclaimer: I'm storing this piece on my PWNED!! list because I like it as an example of funny writing, not because it reflects my opinion one way or another. Feb 28, 2008
valse
NYT article, June 21, 2007:
"...the term derives from vegans, the vegetarians who forsake all animal products, as many freegans also do...Freegans are scavengers of the developed world, living off consumer waste in an effort to minimize their support of corporations and their impact on the planet, and to distance themselves from what they see as out-of-control consumerism." Jun 20, 2007
kad I had always thought that it was the latter definition. May 7, 2007
polymorph Free + Vegan - could be one who will eat vegan food IF it is free, or one who is Vegan but prefers finding free food (I ran across the term amongst some hippies in college and never really got clarification on this point). See also opportunivore, trustafarian and drainbow. Apr 11, 2007