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Made of art and broken glass

Someone who eats a LOT of chocolate croissants.
"She's made of art and broken glass"

art-school broke 

People (mostly hipsters) who claim they are broke or do not have real jobs, yet still somehow always manage to travel the world, take vacations and have apartments full of vintage furniture.
Herp: Did you here Evan is going to Costa Rica for 3 weeks next month?

Derp: What? Isn't he always complaining about being broke?

Herp: Yea, but he's art-school broke.

artbroken 

Impoverished because of an attachment to a bohemian lifestyle. Broke because one is attempting to adopt a pose of the "starving artist."
Those "hippies" were drinking martinis and tipping well all night. They're what you call artbroken.
artbroken by Rockaway September 16, 2008

Artbroken 

A state of creative paralysis characterized by emptiness, longing, and short bursts of creativity violently stifled by practicality or haunting memories of unnecessarily brutal critiques from previously artbroken professionals. Typically felt by art and design students during thesis year or during execution of highly constrained project brief. Extended periods of artbrokeness may result in complete art abandonment or in more extreme cases, corporate design consulting jobs.
I feel so artbroken - before design school I could draw human emotion, I could feel the music when I danced, I could see beauty in the littlest moments and I was inspired by everything - now I spend all my time wireframing apps and searching for free icons.

I give in, he totally artbroke me in that crit. I swear I'm designing for the next project brief in perfect convention so I don't have to retake this studio!
Artbroken by SoullessDesigner November 3, 2013

artbroken 

The feeling you get when you love a piece of art but find out it is too expensive for you to buy.
"When I found out how much that painting was, I was totally artbroken."
artbroken by sfgumby13 April 24, 2014
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026