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  • noun Plural form of trustafarian.

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Examples

  • This is, after all, a band whose fan base is described (not totally inaccurately) as being "trustafarians" -- white trust-fund babies who affect dreadlocks and tattoo their Saabs with GOT POT? bumper stickers.

    Go Phish 2007

  • There would also have been rude comments about "trustafarians" - the allegation that Dave and George, unlike their colleagues, don't have to rely on their MPs 'pay to get by.

    Benedict Brogan's political blog 2009

  • Then again, the respondents may be the same trustafarians who spend close to $300 on ripped hemp clothing in order to empathize with a homeless person.

    Oil and water (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • I think MLS is a perfect example of bubble psychology ... with every round, the price of poker shot up by 5 or 10 million, until only trustafarians like the Barefoot Lord could play.

    Much better by day (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • These precious, trustafarians shopping for the most ridiculous food ever and then riding their silly bikes....it's like watching those douchy episodes of the brady bunch where the kids form a singing group.

    Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • They're the trustafarians that squander their parent's money.

    Mike Gellman: Jammin' on the One Mike Gellman 2010

  • I lived with a girl last year who, while not wealthy herself, had found a cadre of trustafarians who were more than happy to subsidise her life, with free lodging in their country homes, seasons in the Alps, and cast-offs that spanned her entire wardrobe and a car.

    For Chris | clusterflock 2009

  • Venus crosses sun -- amazing pictures that clock was exactly right a poem whose subject so transcendently nondescript was always just somewhere however wronged decriminalized, let's keep it cruel the poor can only smoke we'll make like trustafarians in the tropic of ease.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Venus crosses sun -- amazing pictures that clock was exactly right a poem whose subject so transcendently nondescript was always just somewhere however wronged decriminalized, let's keep it cruel the poor can only smoke we'll make like trustafarians in the tropic of ease.

    ANOTHER WINK FROM THE DIAMOND 2009

  • Daily Finance: As go Brooklyn's trustafarians, so goes the nation

    Is the Recession Creating a Hipster Exodus? 2009

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  • "The high-price trend is further exaggerated by the large concentrations of "trustafarians," or those with large amounts of inherited capital, in these areas." Joel Kotkin, "The Myth of 'Superstar Cities'" WSJ - February 13, 2007 (from kottke.org)

    February 20, 2007