Urban Dictionary Website Review (2024)

FAQs

Is Urban Dictionary a safe website? ›

Urban Dictionary has been criticized for hosting and failing to remove offensive submissions, including ones containing racist and sexist content. For example, the abundance of racist definitions of "aboriginal" prompted a petition calling for their removal on Change.org which received over 7,000 signatures.

Urban Dictionary can be a resource for slang phrases that are not in traditional dictionaries. However, it is not at all an authoritative source, since it is mainly an entertainment site. For questions not specifically about slang or obscure phrases, if you can find another source, it would be better to do so.

If you come across a slang word that you don't know the meaning of, Urban Dictionary is a good place to look it up. If there are multiple meanings, use your common sense to see which one might be the correct one in the context the word was used. Urban Dictionary is not a professional dictionary.

Summary. Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced online dictionary of slang words and phrases that was founded in 1999 as a parody of Dictionary.com and Vocabulary.com by then-college freshman Aaron Peckham.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

The company makes money, he said, mostly from advertising and a small collection of Urban Dictionary-related products like calendars, greeting cards and books that he sells through the site.

Yeet is a slang word that functions broadly with the meaning “to throw,” but is especially used to emphasize forcefulness and a lack of concern for the thing being thrown.

It's official: Rizz is the word of the year, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. What does it mean? Rizz is short for “charisma,” and it simply means an ability to charm and woo a person. It's pronounced, well, rizz, just like it's spelled.

Urban Dictionary is 100% a meme/slang resource. It is not an official repository of words used in the English language as a whole. It will however give you the meanings for nonsense words and portmanteaus, like bureaucrastasy.

Urban dictionary is not reliable. People make up their own definitions and while sometimes they're funny they can also be racist, sexist and bigoted. Trusting their definitions as a language learner is not a good idea.

How many people use Urban Dictionary? ›

Today, Urban Dictionary averages around 65 million visitors a month, according to data from SimilarWeb, with almost 100 percent of its traffic originating via organic search.

While Urban Dictionary's speed may be useful in a legal setting, some lexicologists believe that depending on a crowdsourced dictionary is risky.

Bb for most people means “baby” as defined by the Urban Dictionary. Bb can also mean Big bro. Best brother (I use it when I'm talking to my best friend that's like a brother to me). Bad b**** (can be used when talking dirty to a girl / girlfriend / SO) Bad boy.

Where does yeet come from? An Urban Dictionary entry from 2008 defined yeet as an excited exclamation, particularly in sports and sexual contexts. Another defined yeet yeet as an expression of approval, à la That's what I'm talking about it! Yeet Yeet!

Dictionary.com's main, proprietary source is the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, which is continually updated by our team of experienced lexicographers and supplemented with trusted, established sources including American Heritage and Harper Collins to support a range of language needs.

Parents Need to Know

(Editors are encouraged to approve terms that document but don't endorse discrimination -- which can be a fine line). The site's usage terms say the content "is frequently presented in a coarse and direct manner that some may find offensive" and suggest the site isn't for users under 13.