Product Description

Urbandictionary.com is a very successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases that define the modern slang scene.

Within urbandictionary.com's lively lexicon are:

business provocative -- Attire used to provoke sexual attention in the workplace.

compunicate -- To chat with someone in the same room via instant messaging service instead of in person.

dandruff -- A person who 'flakes out' and ditches their friends.

wingman -- A guy who takes one for the team by hooking up with a hot girl's ugly friend so his own friend can hook up with the hot girl.

Perfect for those who want to pick up some new slang and those who want to translate it, Urban Dictionary is a gritty and witty look at our ever-changing language.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14881 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

About the Author
urbandictionary.com was founded in 1999 by computer science student Aaron Peckham as a way to document the differences in the urban slang used by northern and southern California university students. Its popularity spread so quickly that it was soon publishing definitions contributed by site visitors from all over the world.

Customer Reviews

Love that dictionary
I find it very useful, watching movie and looking for unknown words in the: Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined. 5 stars for creator of this book and everyone who made it possible. Now I win with it! It really, really helps me in every day life, from the morning news till internet chating. I also find shoping at Amazon very easy and useful, I can find what I want and buy what I need. Good work people!

a dictionary that knows how many beans make five
Clear, entertaining definitions and great examples, all of which make the book fun to read just for the heck of it.


But I am still searching for the reverse slang dictionary: i.e., the one that will give me slang definitions of ordinary words. Be able to look up fast different ways to say prison? Or find different names for drugs? Doing time? Cars? etc... As someone who translates fiction into English it is sometimes frustrating when you have the original "foreign" slang expression and can't for the life of you remmber what its anglo-saxon equivalent is.

Very good book for non-english
I know internet version of this dictionary. I was looking forward to see paperback version and I am satisfied. I am not native english-speaking person and some of the words were not understable for me. This book help me understand street words.
A+++ product