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  2. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. List of Generation Z slang - Wikipedia

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    First appeared in 2016 defined by Urban Dictionary as "When someone's whole outfit, hair, makeup, etc. is on point." Originated in the Black LGBTQ+ community when referring to drag queens. Gained popularity on TikTok in 2022. "That outfit is a serve." "Girl, you're serving looks!"

  4. List of urban legends - Wikipedia

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    0–9. The 27 Club is an urban legend that popular musicians and other celebrated artists die at age 27 with statistically anomalous frequency, notably Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mia Zapata, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse. The claim of a "statistical spike" for the death of musicians at that age has been repeatedly ...

  5. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    The urban city that is the setting for the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter) Ivell, Outer Wessex Thomas Hardy: Thomas Hardy's Wessex: Correlates to the real-life Yeovil, Somerset: J ; Jacksonburg, Ishmaelia Evelyn Waugh: Scoop

  6. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-0-415-29189-7. OCLC. 499105143. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by the noted lexicographer of the English language Eric Partridge. The first edition was published in 1937 and seven editions were eventually published by Partridge. An eighth edition was published in 1984, [1 ...

  7. Slang - Wikipedia

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    Slang. A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in verbal conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.

  8. Reliability of Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    This title is currently a redirect to Urban Dictionary#Usage; click there to go to the current target. The full content of this redirect page, including all redirect categories , is displayed below. #REDIRECT Urban Dictionary#Usage

  9. City - Wikipedia

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    A city is a human settlement of a notable size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. [1] [2] In a more narrow sense, a city can be defined ...