Urban Dictionary: Define Your World

One of my favorite little sites. Certain people love to try to 'lock people out' with their use of specialist vocabulary - particularly 'cool words' or slang (I have no idea what is the cool word for slang these days).

With the proliferation of new media and the internet it seems there is an industry springing up of people who seem to get off on deriving the most inaccessible vocabulary - and wheras in the 80s it may have taken months for a new word to permeate - now it is weeks if not days.

The best solution I have come accross is the wonderful little website Urban Dictionary which takes the wiki approach and has a peer reviewed community try to collectively keep track of what is going on out there in the language.

From the Urban Dictionary website ....

'Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world.'

.... warning - this is a site that it is really easy to loose half a day browsing.

Here is my present favorite 'hip word of the moment' defenititon.

1. Podestrian

A person who can be spotted with the iconic white standard iPod earbuds in their ears.

Derived from a combination of iPod and Pedestrian.

'I saw 3 podestrians wait for a bus.'

Urban Dictionary: Define Your World