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 ...

Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...

We love us some Urban Dictionary, in part because it features plenty of unusual definitions for words we thought we knew pretty damn well — like, for instance, “Colorado” and “Denver.” Our latest ...

51. Legendary — a state of extreme awesomeness, popularized by Neil Patrick Harris’ character “Barney Stinson” on How I Met Your Mother (often, the syllables are drawn out as in the case of said ...

If you want to know the official definition of a word, you turn to your trusty dictionary to find the answer. If you're looking to find the immediate cultural significance of a word that may not be in ...

“Mid”, “Bussin”, “Ate”, “Low Key” and many other slang words are used every day. What used to dominate the realms of the internet has now moved into the neighborhood. Various conversations with ...

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 ...

"Blue Anon" is a term coined by conservatives attacking those who push "left-wing conspiracy theories." The phrase returned to the Urban Dictionary website after it appeared to have been temporarily ...

77. Rickroll — a prank involving sending a video with a promising or salacious title that turns out to be a video of Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up” 78. Said no one ever — an expression ...