Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined

by Aaron Peckham, urbandictionary.com

I have seen the future of slang dictionaries, and its name is urbandictionary.com." --"Times" (London)* Move over Merriam-Webster, Oxford, and American Heritage; your version of truthiness has hit the marble ceiling.Compiled from the wildly popular Web site urbandictionary.com, "Mo' Urban Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined" includes more than 2,000 of the latest contemporary slang entries.* Since the site's founding in 1999, more than 2.5 million definitions have been submitted. Thousands of new words and definitions are added each day.* Each alphabetized entry includes a word, a definition, and a sample Having your Apple iPod stolen. "Dude, on the train last night I totally got Applejacked!"bacon A rent-a-cop; not good/important enough to be referred to as a "pig" or "bacon." "I thought we'd be in trouble when the 5-0 started rollin' up, but then I realized it was just the bacon bits--mall security."cruiser To park two police cruisers with the drivers' sides adjacent so that the officers can converse through the open windows. "Better slow down, the po-po are cruiser spooning in the parking lot ahead."

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2007

About the author

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. Aaron listens for the newest words and phrases in San Francisco, Calif.

Reviews

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, after spending a couple of hours wiking off, I then proceeded to dic off. These dictionaries are really too much fun, even if a lot of the defs are made up you have to love this malleable language.