Urban Dictionary

Also known as urbandictionary.com

crowdsourced online dictionary of slang terms

Key facts

Type of site: Dictionary
Available in: English
Owner: Aaron Peckham
Created by: Aaron Peckham
Url: urbandictionary .com
Launched: December 9, 1999 ; 26 years ago ( 1999-12-09 )
Current status: Active

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Official website: www.urbandictionary.com
Image: Urban Dictionary Wikipedia definition.png

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word lookup: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=$1
inception: 1999-00-00
Alexa rank: 494
social media followers: 315215
search formatter URL: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=$1
terms of service URL: about.urbandictionary.com/tos
privacy policy URL: about.urbandictionary.com/privacy
FAQ URL: help.urbandictionary.com/#
official blog URL: urbandictionary.blog
random page URL: www.urbandictionary.com/random.php

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Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content). Words or phrases on Urban Dictionary may have multiple definitions, usage examples, and tags. As of 2014, the dictionary contains over seven million definitions, while around 2,000 new entries were being added daily.

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