Authors: Aaron Peckham (Compiler), Urbandictionary.com Staff
ISBN-13: 9780740751431, ISBN-10: 0740751433
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Founded in 1999 by college student 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. Aaron listens for the newest words and phrases in San Francisco, Calif.
Urbandictionary.com-bearing the slogan "Define Your World"-serves more than 1.5 million visitors each month. Now the best of this immensely popular and irreverent Web site is available in Urban Dictionary.
From shazbot, an expression used when something makes you mad ("Shazbot, I just locked my keys in the car,") to crunk, for crazy drunk ("We about to get crunk tonight,") Urban Dictionary covers the language that encompasses the trials and tribulations that anyone under 30 encounters-and leaves everyone over 30 scratching their heads but wanting to know more. Among urbandictionary.com's lively lexicon are: