1 If you can't find a word to describe something, chances are Urban Dictionary has it. 2  Also, if you invent a new word you can submit it yourself! 3  Urban Dictionary is the dictionary you wrote. 4  A user-generated dictionary where people submit and rate definitions for slang terminology.
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“Some of the stuff on their site is very good, but there is more chaff than wheat. It is a lazy person’s resource.”. Urban Dictionary’s move into the legal arena surprises no one more than Aaron Peckham, its founder, who has continued to run it like a homegrown business.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/media/urban-dictionary-finds-a-place-in-the-courtroom.html
Internet dictionary of slang words and phrases. More than 5 million street lingo words and expressions have been defined by the Internet community. The definitions on Urban Dictionary are meant to be those of slang or subculture words, phrases, and phenomena not found in standard dictionaries and tend to have the newest words.
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Slang has always been a challenge for the courts in cases that involve vulgar or insulting language. Conventional dictionaries lag the spoken word by design. That has lawyers and judges turning to a more fluid source of definitions: Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced collection of slang words on the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/media/urban-dictionary-finds-a-place-in-the-courtroom.html
What it's good for. 1  A dictionary of words and expressions used in the street. 2  Make sense of what kids are talking about. 3  A special kind of dictionary that will tell you what slang terms mean. 4  Teachers can use the Urban Dictionary to understand what their students are saying in the classroom.
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/. Founded in 1999 by college student Aaron Peckham as a parody of the dictionary, urbandictionary.com features definitions written by people from all over the world. Since then, Urban Dictionary has been cited in court, in graduation speeches, and by countless news media outlets, including CNN and Time magazine.
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Sometimes a common slang meaning has nothing to do with what a person actually meant. In 2009, the Nevada Supreme Court said that the Department of Motor Vehicles could not deny the personalized license plate “HOE” because Urban Dictionary said it meant prostitute.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/media/urban-dictionary-finds-a-place-in-the-courtroom.html
Quotes by Aaron Peckham. “Friday: The day after Thursday and before Saturday according to Rebecca Black. Also the most annoying day of the week now.”. ― Aaron Peckham, Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined.
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Still, he argues, the development of Urban Dictionary into a tool for courts is “logical.”. When he began the site in 1999 at California Polytechnic State University, it was meant to be a parody. “Friends and I would sit around and make up words,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/media/urban-dictionary-finds-a-place-in-the-courtroom.html
The idea that consensus rules has its skeptics. Tom Dalzell, senior editor of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, is a fan of Urban Dictionary, but he argues that the site has obvious limits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/business/media/urban-dictionary-finds-a-place-in-the-courtroom.html
who wrote the urban dictionary
The Urban Dictionary is written by Aaron Peckham. Aaron Peckham wrote the Urban Dictionary. Aaron Peckham wrote the urban dictionary.