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2	->"Urban Dictionary is the slang dictionary you wrote. ''Define your world''"
3	--> -- Urban Dictionary
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5	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.
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7	Many of the terms defined are derogatory or describe [[UnreliableNarrator (likely fictional)]] sexual acts, so The Urban Dictionary is [[NotSafeForWork 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.
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9	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.
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11	Urban Dictionary can be found [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/ here]]. If you want a user-contributed dictionary with ''legitimate'' words and definitions, you may want to consider Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s sister project [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page Wiktionary]].
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15	%%* AccidentalPun: An eigenpun.
16	* AuthorTract: Most of the definitions tend to be personal opinions of the contributor. Look up any name you can think of, and you can divide the definitions almost perfectly down the middle by way of looking at positive vs. negative opinions on people in the users' lives with that particular name.
17	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: 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".
18	* ComicSutra: Almost every term will have at least one sexual definition, often one that's unlikely to exist outside the contributor's imagination.
19	* DoesNotLikeMen: Look up [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Man "man"]] and [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Misandry "misandry"]]. [[{{Spammer}} The same person]] who wrote the definitions posted them over and over again.
20	* FanBoy: Some celebrities have incredibly favorable definitions, which generally talk about how talented and beautiful they are.
21	* ForeignCultureFetish: The term [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sabaton%20Effect "Sabaton Effect"]] (named for [[Music/{{Sabaton}} the Swedish metal band]]) is defined as feeling PatrioticFervor for countries one is not actually from, due to learning about dramatic moments in their history.
22	* GreetingGestureConfusion: This is referred to as a ''[[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Braux%20Pas braux pas]]''.
23	* HeManWomanHater:
24	** The (formerly) most popular definition for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=evil "evil"]]. Complete with InsaneTrollLogic.
25	** A majority of the most upvoted definitions for "feminism," "feminist," "woman" and "women" were this before the pages were discovered by actual feminists.
26	%%* HollywoodAtheist: Looking at the definitions for "atheism," some contributors are this. Also see definitions for "religion," "the bible," "God," etc..
27	* ImprobablyLowIQ: The most popular definition for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1 "1"]] is "The IQ of [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush President George Bush]]."
28	* InternetJerk: Letting the Internet at large define (and often make up out of whole cloth) often sexual and offensive slang terms makes this a ForegoneConclusion.
29	* LogicalFallacies: Oh boy... to name just one blatant example the second-highest rated comment for "SlutShaming" insists that [[NoTrueScotsman nobody who understands "true feminism"]] would have a problem with insulting promiscious women and any feminist who disagrees is a "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot RadicalNeo-feminist]]". Plenty more examples though.
30	* LuckBasedMission: 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.
31	%% * PerfectlyCromulentWord: Many of the terms are made up.
32	* PetTheDog: With a combination of EveryoneHasStandards, their definitions for the word "suicide" are surprisingly sensitive and anyone who tries to make an incendiary definition gets immediately downvoted.
33	* PopularityPower: 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)).
34	* PunnyName: Looking up "[[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jack%20Shit jack shit]]" will give you a HurricaneOfPuns "genealogy" of Jack Schitt and his extended family, starting with his mother and father (Awe Schitt and O. Schitt).
35	* SchmuckBait: The "look up any word, like X" above the search bar sometimes recommends searching for "sex". If you do, [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sex the top entry insults you.]]
36	* SelfDeprecation: Most of the definitions the site gives for "urbandictionary" mock the site itself and/or its contributors.
37	* SingleIssueWonk: For a while on and in the days following Inauguration Day in January 2017, the daily definitions mostly consisted of Trump-related TakeThat entries (plus "alternative facts", which is a meme/TakeThat to political truth distortion in general).
38	* StockYuck: One definition for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=girls+who+eat+carrots "girls who eat carrots"]] states that all girls hate carrots.
39	-->''"They are not actual humans, [[StockAnimalDiet they are fucking rabbits]], don't trust a girl who says that they eat carrots, because girls hate carrots."''
40	* TakeThat: A lot of entries are little more than targeted insults against the topic being "defined" (arguably, that is part of the site's charm). For instance, "MTV" is just page after page mocking the NetworkDecay of Creator/{{MTV}}, rather than a listing of actual acronyms.
41	* TakeThatAudience:
42	** The first definition for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stupid "stupid"]]
43	** The first definition for [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=procrastinate "procrastinate"]].
44	--->''"What you are doing right now. Get the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] going and finish your homework."''
45	%% * ToiletHumour: If it isn't sexual humor it's often this.
46	* UnreliableNarrator: Most of the definitions are way biased, or even entirely made up.
47	%% * WriterOnBoard: See AuthorsTract above.

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