Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12562 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780740768750
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham as a parody of the dictionary, urbandictionary.com features definitions written by people from all over the world. Since then, Urban Dictionary has been cited in court, in graduation speeches, and by countless news media outlets, including CNN and Time magazine. Today Aaron is a software engineer in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.

Customer Reviews

Satisfactory ...

While I enjoyed the previous edition of this idea, this book left me feeling a little cheated and a bit let down. It seems as if this publisher is now stretching thin a once good idea.

Sure, there are more than enough unusual and interesting entries to give you a few nights worth of guffaws, but overall, you can get more from just visiting the website or signing up for their 'word of the day'.

I usually purchase a lot of pop-culture dictionaries and reference books, but this isn't one of the better ones by a long shot.

Try these if you're so inclined:

1. McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

2. Knickers in a Twist: A Dictionary of British Slang

3. From Grill to Dome: A Dictionary of African American Slang Words and Phrases

4. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

5. Talk the Talk: The Slang of 65 American Subcultures

6. The Devil's Dictionary

7. The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

Classic
Between this and "Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined", these snapshots of popular culture and webculture are, even if debatable on certain entries, key in understanding the way people think nowadays. They may seem irrelevant now, but even in a few decades, they will provide a major source for linguistic research.

Great Insight into Urban Culture
This is a great book for those who have no idea what is being said on MTV, VH1, or BET! I can now decode hip-hop songs and rather than just going along with what is being said (because I had no clue what "skeet-skeet" meant), I can now decide for myself whether it is something I want to support..