The use of slang in court proceedings can be tricky, especially in criminal cases where an uncommon slang term used by a witness can make a difference in a case. New York Times tech reporter Leslie ...

Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced reference work, is one of the world's most popular websites. Founded in 1999 by Californian computer science student Aaron Peckham, the site was originally intended as ...

Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture ...

They’re letting the dictionary define them as a person. Urban Dictionary is often viewed as a sophomoric source for dirty words, but now bored social media users have tapped into the crowd-sourced ...

I’m a word nerd. I like learning the etymology of words and seeing how language changes over time. So I was intrigued when comedian Harris Wittels coined the term “humblebrag” and when Weird Al ...

Urban Dictionary is a crowd-sourced online dictionary of contemporary slang which attracts approximately 80 million users per month. It is currently ranked as the 23rd most popular website in the US ...

In the latest trend to captivate social media, people are searching for their own names on Urban Dictionary and posting the positive and not-so-positive “definitions.” For those unfamiliar with Urban ...

Urban Dictionary is an alternative dictionary for trendy slang terms and phrases which can be real terms used in life. They may be silly abbreviations, or even offensive at times. Though the platform ...

NEW YORK — For three months and counting, the term “getting Israeled” has been building support on Urban Dictionary, the popular user-run laboratory of emerging lexicon and slang. According to one of ...