Social media users are looking up their own names on Urban Dictionary and are sharing the flattering (and not so flattering) results. For those who have never ventured to the website before, 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 ...

In case you missed it (but you likely haven’t if you have an Instagram account) yet another trend has gripped Stories users of late. Following on from the widely popular “we’ll plant a tree for every ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike most dictionaries, Urban Dictionary, which was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham as a crowdsourced dictionary for slang words, is made up of entries uploaded by anyone, with the online resource ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost everybody’s first name means something. Adam means "man," as do Charles, Karl, and even Charlotte. Deborah and Melissa both mean "honeybee." Hilary means "hilarious." William means ...

THE study of mineral names by Prof. Chester was originally begun in the interest of Murray's New English Dictionary: the results of years of patient work and search are conveniently collected together ...

In a move that could trigger fits of fury among readers, Oxford University Press — publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary — has picked "rage bait" as its 2025 Word of the Year. The term, which has ...

Cambridge Dictionary has revealed it’s word of the year for 2025: ‘parasocial’. ‘Parasocial’ is defined as a connection someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know. The rise ...