Person 1: "Did you hear that Jess started those rumours about Ryan"
Person 2: "She's Such an Instigator"
Person 2: "She's Such an Instigator"
by Piercethesyko June 23, 2017
Someone who tries to make everything inflammatory by encouraging escalation of actions, while pretending to be concerned about de-escalation, resolution, compromise, and intervention, or anything else that makes him/her look like a good person among bad people.
The girl's family knew she had always been an instigator, the kind of person who said fuck you to neighbors and flipped them off by coming in their town like she owned it, with the intervention programs she supported to cover her own actions, or involvement in the questionable actions of others, and make her look like a better/stronger person than she actually was.
by Solid Mantis March 31, 2021
The instigator would rather fuck with somebody else's life or talk shit about it than tend to their own (if there was one to tend to, if it wasn't a facade of a life to show everyone).
by Solid Mantis December 02, 2020
boy 1: Yo mama
boy 2: What did you say about my mama?
instigator: Oooh, he talking bout yo mama. Man i wouldn't take that if i was you!
messy agitator troublemaker provocateur meddler
boy 2: What did you say about my mama?
instigator: Oooh, he talking bout yo mama. Man i wouldn't take that if i was you!
messy agitator troublemaker provocateur meddler
by One Zooted Individual March 31, 2009
To start a conflict between other people just so you can watch. Can be between friends, between enemies, or between friends and enemies. Usually involves saying "he said she said you suck!" or some other much more colorful variant. Occasionally falls under the subtle art of interpreting a comment as incorrectly as is plausible.
Drew: "Why do you look so angry, Jordan?"
Akira: "I heard someone say the other day that Jordan doesn't like you, Drew."
Drew: "WHAT!"
Jordan: "Wait, I never said..."
Akira: "...Didn't you wonder where your milkshake went the other day, Jordan? Drew stole it."
Jordan: "WHAT!"
Akira: "That's cuz Drew thinks your haircut is ugly."
Jordan: "Oh really?!!"
Akira: "...And wants to challenge you to a duel."
Drew: "Whoa Akira, why are you trying to instigate?!"
Akira: "I heard someone say the other day that Jordan doesn't like you, Drew."
Drew: "WHAT!"
Jordan: "Wait, I never said..."
Akira: "...Didn't you wonder where your milkshake went the other day, Jordan? Drew stole it."
Jordan: "WHAT!"
Akira: "That's cuz Drew thinks your haircut is ugly."
Jordan: "Oh really?!!"
Akira: "...And wants to challenge you to a duel."
Drew: "Whoa Akira, why are you trying to instigate?!"
by Silver415 May 04, 2010
by brittiannagotdetwap November 19, 2020
Someone that encourages escalation of actions, then pretends to be concerned about resolution, compromise, justice, intervention, and other shit like that once something bad does actually happen, they want everybody to love them all of sudden, no matter what they did or who they did or were involved in doing it to (a 7 year old kid, for example).
The girl's family knew she was always an instigator who thought it was funny to escalate bad things to happen, then pretend to be concerned about finding resolution, compromise, intervention, or peace (Hitler also claimed to be concerned about seeking peace). Unlike some people seemed to, they didn't think she was scary to be around, they thought she was more mouthy than anything else.
by Solid Mantis March 31, 2021