In the latest trend to captivate social media, people are searching for their own names on Urban Dictionary and posting the positive and not-so-positive “definitions.” For those unfamiliar with Urban ...

They’re letting the dictionary define them as a person. Urban Dictionary is often viewed as a sophomoric source for dirty words, but now bored social media users have tapped into the crowd-sourced ...

Have you been kept up at night wondering what the meaning of your name is? Sleep well, friend, because Urban Dictionary can surely tell you. For whatever reason, Urban Dictionary — an online ...

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CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Like Twitter, Urban Dictionary was created as a way to give people a voice. Founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham, Urban Dictionary quickly became a modern-day Merriam-Webster, complete with terms and ...

Social media users are flocking to the website Urban Dictionary to look up their names and share their results. The results have been an array of descriptions ranging from sweet to borderline ...