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 ...

Have you been kept up at night wondering what the meaning of your name is? Sleep well, friend, because Urban Dictionary can surely tell you. For whatever reason, Urban Dictionary — an online ...

The user-run internet lexicon Urban Dictionary emerged in the early 2000s to define and occasionally create online slang — and, in doing so, has both shaped and reflected the internet, as well as ...

The crowd-sourced dictionary of “urban”* language, that font to which we all repair when seeking the definitive definition of “badonkadonk,”** the Urban Dictionary, has been sworn in in a court of law ...

Internet slang has a tendency to fall out of fashion almost faster than the general population can even learn what it means. But sometimes it was never really in fashion in the first place. Case in ...

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 may have originally started as a joke, but the online authority of all things slang is now a legitimate source on what popular sayings mean — and a ton of the words published in their ...

Holed up in his London flat, Jonathon Green has been toiling among his antique books for years, trying to bring a great work to the masses. That work includes 1,740 terms for sexual intercourse ...

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 ...

Social media users are flocking to Urban Dictionary to search their names and some of the results are less than complimentary. The latest social media trend isn't as dangerous as climbing milk crates ...