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Urban Dictionary (Website)
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Created in 1999 by a college student named Aaron Peckham, the Urban Dictionary combines "anyone can add information" with a dictionary. It has currently recorded over four million words and phrases, mostly slang or slang usage. New words, definitions, and examples are submitted and then approved by the votes of both users and visitors. After that, the new additions are displayed for the world to see, forever.Many of the terms defined are derogatory or describe (likely fictional) sexual acts, so The Urban Dictionary is not exactly something a child should browse through unsupervised. It also gives personal opinions by contributors on certain subjects (bands, movies, books...), with contributors rarely considering the opinions of others. It can be useful for finding out how an unknown term is used, but don't trust it blindly; a significant fraction of the definitions are made up by the person contributing them. It's usually a good idea to read multiple definitions and decide for yourself which ones sound plausible.Urban Dictionary offers a Word of the Day on its mainpage. For a long time, they allowed users to rate from the mainpage, resulting in large numbers of negative votes. This option was eventually disabled, largely preventing this.Urban Dictionary can be found here. If you want a user-contributed dictionary with legitimate words and definitions, you may want to consider Wikipedia's sister project Wiktionary. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Most of the definitions are way biased, or even entirely made up. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: The first definition for "stupid" The first definition for "procrastinate". | |
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Single-Issue Wonk | |
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Single-Issue Wonk: For a while on and in the days following Inauguration Day in January 2017, the daily definitions mostly consisted of Trump-related Take That! entries (plus "alternative facts", which is a meme/Take That! to political truth distortion in general). | |
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Author Tract: Most of the definitions tend to be personal opinions of the contributor. | |
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Greeting Gesture Confusion | |
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Greeting Gesture Confusion: This is referred to as a braux pas. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Looking up "jack shit" will give you a Hurricane of Puns "genealogy" of Jack Schitt and his extended family, starting with his mother and father (Awe Schitt and O. Schitt). | |
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Foreign Culture Fetish | |
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Foreign Culture Fetish: The term "Sabaton Effect" (named for the Swedish metal band) is defined as feeling Patriotic Fervor for countries one is not actually from, due to learning about dramatic moments in their history. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The 2nd definition for the word goose as of writing is "A ram is a ram, a donkey is an ass, and a ram in the ass is a goose". | |
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Internet Jerk | |
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Internet Jerk: Letting the Internet at large define (and often make up out of whole cloth) often sexual and offensive slang terms makes this a Foregone Conclusion. | |
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Does Not Like Men | |
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Does Not Like Men: Look up "man" and "misandry". The same person who wrote the definitions posted them over and over again. | |
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He-Man Woman Hater | |
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He-Man Woman Hater: The (formerly) most popular definition for "evil". Complete with Insane Troll Logic. A majority of the most upvoted definitions for "feminism," "feminist," "woman" and "women" were this before the pages were discovered by actual feminists. | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
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Luck-Based Mission: Up until 2021, every definition you write goes through a reviewal process that asks users if this should be on the site or not. It's a 50-50 chance that your new definition will appear on the site. | |
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Fan Boy | |
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Fan Boy: Some celebrities have incredibly favorable definitions, which generally talk about how talented and beautiful they are. | |
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Logical Fallacies | |
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Logical Fallacies: Oh boy... to name just one blatant example the second-highest rated comment for "Slut-Shaming" insists that nobody who understands "true feminism" would have a problem with insulting promiscious women and any feminist who disagrees is a "RadicalNeo-feminist". Plenty more examples though. | |
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Not Safe for Work | |
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Not Safe for Work: It's a user-driven slang compendium. What did you expect? Sunshine and rainbows? | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: Most of the definitions the site gives for "urbandictionary" mock the site itself and/or its contributors. | |
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Comic Sutra | |
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Comic Sutra: Almost every term will have at least one sexual definition, often one that's unlikely to exist outside the contributor's imagination. | |
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Schmuck Bait | |
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Schmuck Bait: The "look up any word, like X" above the search bar sometimes recommends searching for "sex". If you do, the top entry insults you. | |
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Stock "Yuck!" | |
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Stock "Yuck!": One definition for "girls who eat carrots" states that all girls hate carrots. | |
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Popularity Power | |
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Popularity Power: When there's more than one definition of a given word published, they're sorted according to the ratio of up to down votes, with the top def being the one with the largest positive ratio of up votes to down votes (for example: [x word]: (top) def 1 (3up:1down), def 2 (2up:1down), def 3 (0up, 3 down)). | |
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Improbably Low I.Q. | |
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Improbably Low I.Q.: The most popular definition for "1" is "The IQ of President George Bush." | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: With a combination of Everyone Has Standards, their definitions for the word "suicide" are surprisingly sensitive and anyone who tries to make an incendiary definition gets immediately downvoted. | |
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