On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...
“Clatterdevengeance” is Jonathon Green’s favorite slang word, and he is in a position to have one. Green, known on Twitter as Mister Slang, is the world’s foremost English slang lexicographer and the ...
Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...
when a person tells you that your property is theirs (when it obviously isn't), and demands you just give this property to them, and if you refuse, they take it by force and the law will somehow be on ...
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The Cambridge Dictionary has welcomed new slang terms into the millions of words it has defined, including terms like “skibidi” and “tradwife” that have been popularized on social media. More than ...
Long before Oxford Dictionaries named the tears-of-joy emoji 2015's "word" of the year, the language grumps were grumbling about the downfall of the written word. Dictionary.com had recently ...