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The metaphorical subtance that causes people to believe in a false hope. It is often paired up with copium.

Opposed to copium, which represents the rationalization of the current situation, hopium represents the belief that the situation will someday improve.
1: Wow, this show is absolute trash
2: Maybe it'll get better in the second season

1: That's the hopium talking
Hopium by fBOMBB September 25, 2021
Word of the Day on July 1, 2023
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A person that is super pretty looking but is a huge dick.
Wow, that guy Tyler is a real HORTU.
HORTU by jmersh February 8, 2015

Hoppus Hair 

Spiked up crazy hair resembling that of legendary bass player for Blink-182, Mark Hoppus. He is known to have the sickest hair to ever exist and anyone achieving Hoppus Hair deserves respect.
interviewer: "mark how do you keep your hair like that, perfect Hoppus Hair?"
Mark Hoppus: "the secret to keeping your hair like this, if you wanna know the secret, is hair spray and not washing it. not washing much more than the hair spray."
Hoppus Hair by notrealpunk24 November 1, 2011
a photograph captured by a hipster. or a very hip photo.
Mayne, I just picked up a few hiptures from the used cd store, along with a Wavves, Panda Bear, and Beach House cd.
hipture by mooper315 August 14, 2010
1. An addiction to false hopes.

2. The state of wallowing in self-pity combined with the delusion of potential fame/greatness. One in this state will hope for others to pity or save them, yet paradoxically romanticize their own struggle, pitying themselves and never moving on to achieve their dreams.
She thought that, if she wanted to, she could write the next great american novel, but because of Hopium, she remained the same alcoholic cat lady until her dying day.
Hopium by Cado et Vivo June 25, 2018
In securities trading a trader is said to be under the influence of the fictional narcotic hopium when she/he finds themselves deeply in the negative on the wrong side of a trade. The trader will continue to hold the position in the hopes that the security will return to the value at which they acquired it. (eg. staying long in a stock position when the price continues to plummet)
Cramer, you are totally smoking hopium man, thinking that stock will go back up anytime soon. Just sell it and get out!
Hopium by Trade Pimp February 19, 2010