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Originally Posted by komitsuki
Technically, UrbanDictionary is a crowdsourced online dictionary with a system called evaluation measure. This is why it's a nice resource for morphologists and sociolinguists who research on internet English.
UrbanDictionary is not a true dictionary, people say? Anyway it's a great resource for some linguistics researchers.
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True, true. Even though I'm a native speaker of English, there are quite a few words I come by online that I need to know the meaning of without looking like a geezer, and UrbanDictionary is where I do it!