Urban Dictionary
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crowdsourced online dictionary of slang terms
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Within Vinony's link graph, Urban Dictionary is referenced by 147 other articles, and connects out to Wikipedia, Arabic and Facebook.
Vinony files it under 1999 establishments in California, American websites and Internet properties established in 1999.
Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online dictionary
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- 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
- language of work or name
- English language
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Urban Dictionary” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.