Urban Dictionary

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Who here HATES Urban Dictionary!! ! I do with every fiber of my being!!

I like it! The Urban Dictionary is useful for finding out what people might really mean when, for example, they say that someone is a "Half-Day Tony", they really mean someone who starts a new job and quits after only half a day.

What each of the respondents to the OP above said.

The Urban Dictionary is great as long as you dont take it too seriously.

You see some new form of textspeak(often here on WP), or some slang phrase you've never heard before, so you google the phrase. I never goggle the Urban Dictionary itself. Just type in the phrase or acronym, I am looking for. The Urban dictionary is usually among the first things that comes back. Its often hilarious. Usually accurate enough.

And google, or Bing, show competing sites with any alternative meanings to what you're looking for( if there are any other meanings). So its not like the Urban Dictionary monopolizes.



The only problem I know of is that foreigners from non English speaking countries do sometimes take the Urban Dictionary too seriously and treat it like its Websters Dictionary and will pick up crazy fringe lingo from it and use it like its standard English (and confuse us real native speakers).

I share my point of view on it with dcj123, Fnord and naturalplastic.
It's a very useful source for slang terms of any kind and can be pretty funny as well.
I'm not taking things that are listed in there seriously anyway, after all it's called Urban Dictionary. That already tells its own tale and makes it clear that it has things in common with urban myths/legends and any kind of urban culture, which are often not to be taken seriously at all.

I find it very entertaining and humourus.

I use it when there is an unfamiliar slang term i see. I wish there was something like that when i was in school as the other students knew i didn't know what they were talking about and ridiculed me for that.

Urban dictionary is awesome.

Being Australian, I often use it to clarify the Americanspeak of WP.

e.g. The word 'rooting' has a completely different meaning in Australia.

Just a random idea:
I let my thoughts wander about what you have mentioned with that "rooting for one's team". Roots are something that keep a tree solid and in the ground. Roots support the tree with water and the nutrition it needs. Now, when you're rooting for your team, it could mean as much as "providing a solid rooting" to your team, so it won't fall over and will keep going/living healthily. The more roots a tree has, the better "supported" it is. The more people root for their team, the better supported it is as well.
That's where I would make the connection. Whether it really is that way... I have no idea! This is the only meaning I could make sense of.

treasure trove of unique, obscure or made up terms for sexual acts.

a lot of stupid and offensive stuff on the site probably but I like Urban Dictionary just because it does provide a utility into understanding netspeak and other idioms and words as well too. I go on there to look something up, not to browse a bunch of made names for disgusting sexual acts.

I used it today to find out what a tard burger was.

The definition given confirmed that the term was indeed as insulting as it sounded when I heard it used to describe another person.