Urban Dictionary

ELI5 - What's so great about Urban Dictionary anyway?

Urban Dictionary is a website founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Its original purpose was to create a crowd-sourced dictionary of slang words not found in traditional dictionaries; however it has grown to include definitions of words of all different subject matter, with over 7 million in total.

Its simple voting system uses upvotes and downvotes to rank words, presenting the most relevant definitions first, and removing bad definitions all together.

Urban Dictionary remains a valuable reference tool for informal words, but is also used for entertainment. Many of the definitions on the site include memes or a sarcastic humor, such as the definition of a programmer as a, "Machine that converts caffeine to code."

By drollparadox7655 9 months ago