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short for hilarious.

Best used in abnormally shortened sentences.
not me: "So, at this office they offered me a soda, but I couldn't find an apprope time to drink it during the interview...
...and then I tried to get up, but tripped and started rolling down the stairs... I held onto my soda the whole time, so when I got up I had soda fizzing down my face!!"
me: "Hilare."
hilare by julie bing February 17, 2005
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When something is really funny but not quite funny enough to actually finish the word hilarious!
Hilare by Melizssy August 14, 2010
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bare hilare 

A phrase used to describe somebody as very funny
"You Are Bare Hilare moit, yeah sick in the head and you knows what we does up here"
bare hilare by Lilscooter11 September 28, 2005

hilarian 

My sister came up with this word to describe me when she was about eight years old. It is a portmanteau combining "hilarious" and "comedian." It is used sarcastically conveying the idea that "although you think you're funny, you're not."
Dude: Jack be not nimble; Jack be not quick; Jack couldn't jump over that there candlestick.
Bro: Hilarious, dude.
Dude: I'm a poet, I knows it.
Bro: Yeah, you're a real hilarian.
hilarian by J No Period November 4, 2020

hilariocity 

Used to define a so-bad-it's-good movie. It's such an atrocity, it's hilarious. Hilariocity.
Did you see The Room? It's such a hilariocity.
The Wicker Man starring Nicolas Cage is one of the greatest hilariocities of all time.
hilariocity by IAMtheAK August 8, 2016

Hilarious and original 

A reply to a post online that is so overused it is no longer funny, hence the intense sarcasm in both words
Post: Ayy lmao
Reply: Hilarious and original
French variance means cheerful- usually loves to watch Steve Harvey’s Family Feud’s Funniest Moments. Kind soul very funny!
“Always a Hilaire to be around!”
Hilaire by ScaryStomps June 30, 2020
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