Peckham - Mo Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined

A LSO BY A ARON P ECKHAM
U RBAN D ICTIONARY : F ULARIOUS S TREET S LANG D EFINED

Mo Urban Dictionary
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Big shouts to everyone who has helped Urban Dictionary grow. High-fives to Dr. Bensky and my Cal Poly professors; props to my editors at Andrews McMeel in Kansas City; much respect to my coworkers and fellow leet hackers in the yay area; holler to the ACLU; daps to my BFFs, Mike D. and Dave G.; thx to my crew, Sheila and Anna; and much love to my parents, Doug and Brenda, whose work inspires me.

Big ups to the thousands of people who edit urbandictionary.com and to the millions of people who write it.

Holla back,

U rban Dictionary is more than a dictionaryits a catalog of popular culture you helped write. Since it started in 1999, all of its definitions have been written by people like you who visited urbandictionary.com. Thousands of definitions are submitted every day, and many of them get published online. Because its written by normal people, Urban Dictionary is an opinionated, honest, and sometimes raunchy catalog of the worldfromurban cougar (an older woman who goes clubbing to hit on younger men) topregret (the feeling of impending regret for something youre going to do anyway).

Urban Dictionary started as the anti-dictionary, a parody of dictionary.com. Today its not just a parody: Parents and teachers use it to understand the next generation, and you can use it to decode the newest hip-hop lyrics or laugh atpodestrians andbluetools. In a UK court case, a judge referred to Urban Dictionary in a lawsuit between two rappers. Its been referenced in trademark disputes, high school graduation speeches, and newspaper articles. Today Urban Dictionary is off the hook: fifty million people visited urbandictionary.com in 2006, and in the last eight years people sent in more than two million definitions.

By publishing your definitions, Urban Dictionary puts the power of the dictionary where it belongsin the hands of normal people who speak everyday language. Definitions dont always agreemany words are defined differently by different peoplebut on urbandictionary.com thats totally cool. Wikipedia says it well:Urban Dictionary allows for many truths, rather than an authoritative guide. This book is a collection of the best of those truthsand you can always find the newest entries online.

My ear is to the ground listening for the word on the street, fromghost ride the whip tosneeze tease to Nancy Pelosismarble ceiling. But Ive only got two ears and its a big world, so Urban Dictionary needs your helpwhen you hear the newest slang, spread the word, and define your world, at urbandictionary.com.

In football, the crowd. When the away team is backed up near the goal post, the 12th man makes a lot of noise, making it hard for the lineman to hear the snap count.

Sweet! Seattle just won because the 12th man made the offense commit five false-start penalties.

In rap, one verse or sixteen lines.

He had the hottest 16 on Track 2.

The breakdown lane on a highway. Why? Because thats how much money you gotta pay if a cop catches you driving in it. (Can also mean the leftmost lane for trucks when they are only allowed to drive on the right.)

Passenger: This traffic sux! Lets take the $500 lane.

Driver: OK, but only if youll front the $500 when statey sees us.

An unwritten law dictating that if a food or other consumable item is dropped onto the floor, it may be picked up and eaten within five seconds. The reasoning behind this is that dirt and germs take six seconds to transfer from one surface to another.

Oops, dropped my Popsicle. Five-second rule! (Proceeds to pick up dirty-ass rocket pop and suck the lint off of it.)

A sexual favor performed by someone without receiving the favor in return.

Man: Hey, baby, how about we 69?

Woman: How about we 68?

Man: Huh?

Woman: Thats where you do me and I owe ya one.

Three days off in a row.

Im taking a 72 this weekend.

A way to spell boobies so no one knows what it is, usually indicating porn or pictures of boobies. Used by computer nerds.

Look! Fresh 8008135.

I love you: 8 letters, 3 words, 1 meaning.

Shout out to Scott! 831 babe!

A person who usually voted Democratic, but has been taken in by the Bush administrations fear-mongering.

I thought my dad was going to vote for Kerry, but he turned out to be another 9/11 Republican.

Way to say You hustle. Most people work from 9 to 5, but you put in more. You have the 9 to 9 hustle.

Ive decided to bid adieu to the 9 to 9 grind.

The only suffix to your name that supersedes PhD.

My name is John Smith, MBA, P. Eng, @gmail.com.

The guy who gets the high score in all the arcade games across the country.

No ones gonna beat AAAs high score in Street Fighter.

Ass-backward, behind the times, not modern.

Man this state is AB! I cant even find a 7-Eleven.

An abandoned house that homeless people squat in.

My parents kicked me out, so Im staying in an abandominium for now.

Sex only on anniversaries, birthdays, and Christmas.

Theyve been married so long they only have abc sex.

Absolutely serious, but shorter. We all like short words when we want to be cute.

Benny: Are you sure that you want to break my heart?!

Joon: I am absoserious!

Absurd and ridiculous at the same time; insane.

Will you stop being so absurdicus?

A hybrid of usage and abuse.

You have committed such a heinous crime of abusage with my alcohol.