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hipster adjacent 

(1) Someone who appears to be a hipster due to clothing, mannerisms, and cultural preferences, but in fact is not a hipster due to being very successful and happy in a corporate job.
(2) A corporate hipster.
Me: "want to meet up in Wicker Park later and talk about open source software?" Hipster Adjacent Friend: "No, tonight isn't good, I want to get carryout from Wasabi and need to commit and push the new code update to my fork in GitHub before midnight."

gay adjacent

adj., possessing many of the mannerisms and interests traditionally associated with gay people while not personally identifying as gay.
He's got a girlfriend so I guess he's just gay adjacent. But he's probably a [BJ} away from moving next-door.
gay adjacent by inscrutabullwit March 11, 2004

Fun adjacent 

Someone who seems to be a fun person because he is always there when there's a good time happening. In reality they are not contributing to the good time. They are just always around the people who create the good times.
Ever notice how Jay just sits and never says a word at a party. It like we're all having fun and he's just fun adjacent.
Fun adjacent by Iggy10 August 30, 2018

Hood Adjacent 

a person who grew up in a hood-neighborhood and/or around hood activity, but did not grow up in a hood household in the hood-neighborhood, and does not exude hood characteristics. This person is familiar with the hood, feels a special closeness to it, and loves participating in hood activities when invited.

These people are sometimes perceived as stuck-up or bourgeois, but were more than likely sheltered, and proud to associated with their neighborhood.
Nah she not hood… she “hood adjacent”… she grew up in our hood, rode the school bus with us and all, but she couldn’t hang with us like that.
Hood Adjacent by MKayeM05 July 31, 2022
adjective

1. lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.

2. just before, after, or facing: a map on an adjacent page.

Our definition: Homo, "Gay", things of that nature. basically as less harmful way of calling one "Gay" such as "fags, faggots,dikes and all other rude and cruel things.

(also can be used for code talk)
examples: 1. he look adjacent wit dem jeans on. 2. wit yo adjacent ass. 3. damn its alot of adjacents around here. 4. Thats where all the adjacent folks hang at.
Adjacent by Taheerah Hansen June 7, 2009

420 adjacent 

Meaning you don't use marijuana, but you don't mind if someone else does.
For use in a dating profile.
420 friendly = let's smoke weed togeter
420 adjacent = I don't smoke, but you can smoke around me.
420 adjacent by GREASER August 15, 2021