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I first came across Urban Dictionary several years ago when working crazy night shifts until 5am. Urban Dictionary was used to entertain me at 3am when office cricket became boring and sleep was so very far away.

In its simplest form Urban dictionary is user based content site in which individuals both submit and edit content. Namely that of defining words.

I guess the simplest way to look at Urban Dictionary is to look at the way the users themselves define it. Currently the most popular definition of Urban Dictionary is

Urban Dictionary

A place formerly used to find out about slang, and now a place that teens with no life use as a burn book to whine about celebrities, their friends, etc., let out their sexual frustrations, show off their racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-(insert religion here) opinions, troll, and babble about things they know nothing about.

Urbandictionary.com isn’t a burn book or a webjournal site.

Urban Dictionary was the brain child of Aaron Peckham way back when in 1999.. before y2k destroyed the world and we all turned into chimpanzees who believe we are still all part of the human race.

The website is designed so that users can submit words and then define them and other users can rate the definitions. The higher definition ranks the more prominate position it has on the site. Users are also requested to submit a working phrase for there word. This often results in some of the most crass, profane, politically incorrect, racist, sexists, homophobic, and generally just plain wrong definition of words. 

However it also results is some of the most ridiculous and funny definitions as well… on a bad day a random search of urban dictionary can often harbour shrieks of laughter from my desk as I procrastinate the day-to-day chores of my existence.

Urban Dictionary outside the WWW… is there an outside of the WWW???

Aaron has published two books since the inception of urban dictionary. The first being Urban Dicationary: Furarious Street slang Defined and the second Mo’ Urban Dicationary: Ridonkulous street slang defined. Both proving relatively popular as the gift that keeps on giving…

In keeping with the BGA style (despite the obvious nature of this post relating to said university assignment) here are BGA’s top five gayest sayings on Urban Dictionary…

1 – Gaybie    

2 – dykalicious

3 – Ghey

4 – GayDar  

5 – Lesbeterian