2007 press mentionsDecember
thoughtleader.co.za
Drink a galon of jin, die, get in a tomb and relaaaaax (sic)
Urban Dictionary is an incredibly useful resource for pwning English.
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Slang so popular it now has own dictionary
Urban Dictionary is an epic online slang dictionary with definitions written by users.
g4tv
Missoula Independent
Flash in the Pan
Hard-copy publishers are all being aced by the online Urban Dictionary.
Tahlequah Daily Press
'Anablog' to 'yupscale': Trendy dictionary offers insight
dashesandsplashes
Wacky Wikis That Can Cut
setonhill.edu
Banning Wikipedia at school
When students are writing about popular culture, user-authored sites like Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary are far more useful than academic sources.
The Star-Telegram
The Fab Five
The 700 Level
Don't Call The Fat, Furry Pig 'PorkChop!'
If it's in Urban Dictionary then it is fact.
November
The Badger Herald
Society served by slang index
Urban Dictionary is society and culture -- or, more specifically, a guide to it.
Wordie
25 Gifts for Wordanistas
Urban Dictionary is like Wordie's bad older brother, who taught it to smoke and swear.
The Independent Florida Alligator
UN rules against Tasers after several deaths
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Superman dat Song
University of Maryland Diamondback
New turtle on campus
What constitutes an awkward situation? I turn to the authoritative online reference, Urban Dictionary, for the answer.
shrinkblog@blogspot
Blog fodder
inRich.com
Stumped by teen slang? Turn to the web for help
The New York Times
The new V word
HipHopDX
Soulja Boy Debunks "Superman Dat Hoe" Rumors
The Sunday Times Online (Sri Lanka)
'il b kmg dar 2 mor 2c S cz I...'
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
pitch.com
New Christos
Daily Yomiuri Online
Grandfather Robert Wyatt sings out against war
Amherst Daily Collegian
Slang shaped by youth, technology
The New York Observer
Fear and Loathing at the n+1 Party
Urban Dictionary is the most immature website I've ever seen.
October
Quantcast Blog
Urban Dictionary has joined Quantcast
The Boston Globe
Talk amongst yourselves
Urban Dictionary is a wellspring of slang.
techbizwatch
Top web sites 2007: Info and Reference
The Christian Science Monitor
Yes, there's a word for it
Some of these words are more suitable to polite company than others.
Wonkette
Mitt Romney Gets 'Vanilla Steamer' ... And Refuses To Pay For It
Sydney Morning Herald
What's your social lubricant?
The Idaho Statesman
Home may be where heart is, but garage or "man cave" is where the men are
You may not find it in Webster's, but Urban Dictionary has a definition for it.
CNN
Learn to speak teens' language
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Craig's "wide stance" excuse finds its way into the lexicon
uncov
What's A Cincinatti Bowtie?
The only legitimate dictionary I acknowledge is Urban Dictionary. That shit's all I need to know.
Spokesman Review
Spin control: SCHIP makes strange bedfellows
Urban Dictionary can help you sound cool and hip even when you are far past your prime.
podictionary
scuttlebutt
podictionary
wicked
dollymix.tv
Girly Stereotypes: The Fangirl
The Tonganoxie Mirror
Power running game produces first Chieftains victory
The Calgary Sun
Witty dictionary of Britney-isms will give you a leg up arguing with an unfitney showing a flash of Britnatomy
Chicago Sun-Times
'Baby Daddy' phrase just makes me cry
Columbus Alive
Lunch Break Links
Christung
Urban Dictionary search for your iPhone
tMR TV @ YouTube
Five Urban Dictionary Faves
Urban Dictionary: The stellar nebula of neologisms and slang on the web.
Jason Bellini
Five Urban Dictionary Faves
Urban Dictionary is the Wikipedia of slang dictionaries.
Melly vs. Stomach
Linguist Labor: Birthing a Word
Urban Dictionary is like my guidebook to the real world.
The Gluttonist
Food-porny lexicon
Urban Dictionary: rife with all kinds of made-up words you didn't know you needed.
South Africa Times
Shelf Life: A parliament of wisdom
I subscribe to a spits-on-its-hands site called Urban Dictionary.
The Sacramento Bee
The Five Spot
The Detroit Free Press
Asked and answered
Boston Globe
Teens, Slang and the Internet
Urban Dictionary is a wellspring of slang.
September
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
Urban Dictionary is the dictionary of the internet.
makeuseof
40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark
Urban Dictionary: Hilarious and practical.
August
ESPN
PGA Championship live blog
Forget Webster's. The true test for acceptance of a new word is for it to be on urbandictionary.com.
Houston Press
The Lower End Theory
July
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
The Daily Californian
The New Scarlet Letter
AOL Sports
Feds Say Outfit Called 'Bad Newz Kennels' Ran Dog Fighting on Michael Vick's Property
RH Reality Check
Teenage Birth Rate Drops: Part II
CBS SportsLine.com
What the Krunk? Name that CBA team
ABC11 Raleigh
Nifong's Replacement Announced
Playbill
Onstage & Backstage: The Setup
The Onion Bag
Kewell in big words book
The Toronto Star
10 things we learned this week
Austin American-Statesman
Austin is all over the map, except when it comes to Craddick
Urban Dictionary: a renegade, user-generated dictionary.
Business Week
Top Desktop Diversions, 2007
Stay abreast of the latest slang.
Da Roostah
Flaite
Urban Dictionary is the most relevant reference source in the modern world.
tuesdaycreative @ vox
I'd Rather Be Called a Nerd
Urban Dictionary: The bible of slang.
AOL
CRUNK: Added to Webster's Dictionary
Anyone can be a linguist.
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
The Divertex
Expand Your Vocabulary with Urban Dictionary
Meriden Record-Journal
Putdowns of towns aren't factual
truevilgenius
What happens when anyone can write a dictionary entry
Urban Dictionary: Hilarious chaos.
You can lose 45 minutes at Urban Dictionary without even trying.
The Hooligan Spot
Thizz is how we speak
Urban Dictionary: a dictionary for the modern times.
The Times of India
Jesus is here. Again
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
June
Check out Urban Dictionary -- you'll be surprised at how much you don't know about the English language.
English Today
UrbanDictionary.com
Follow Me Down
What is a cougar?
Urban Dictionary doesn't mince its words.
itMilk Blog
How To Leverage User Contributed Domain Names
The Moderate Voice
To Republicans: Do Not Use Racial Slurs
Frederick News Post
Most call themselves Frednecks
Playbill
The Setup
Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
Rikka Productions
The Japanese conspiracy
Rafu Shimpo
SoCal: Lighten the Hell(a) Up
The Meerschaum Canteen
When Original Inspiration Is Defeated by Sameness
These words capture real-life examples of things I know and have seen, but have never identified.
Urban Dictionary: All things pop-culture that standard encyclopedias don't carry.
Arizona Daily Star
What's the origin of having a tear tattooed underneath the eye?
apesma's lament
urban slang christian censorship?
Urban Dictionary is radical democracy in action. You can watch the language evolve before your very eyes.
Podictionary
flagrant
bub.blicio.us
bub.blicio.us Makes Urban Dictionary
May
The Toronto Star
The week's best invented words
Urban Dictionary: now that I know the word for it, I see this everywhere.
Los Angeles Times
Mancation proclamation: Honey, I miss you
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
No matter who wears 'em, they're still Mom jeans
Adweek
Art & Commerce: Do We Have G Cred?
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Keeping an ear out
Guardian Unlimited
No jacket required
AOL Sports
Martellus Bennett's Rhymes Are Wack
The Denver Post
Dive into Christmas in May
Miami Herald
That hair, those hoops... 'Chonga' Girls find fame
Star Gazette
When words take on a new meaning
Urban Dictionary: Webster's it ain't.
Sydney Morning Herald
You and Me
South Bend Tribune
'Imus Issue' could spark the elimination of the -isms
Sunday Herald
Bullies don’t need the telly for guidance
The Bowdoin Orient
Live like a rock star with Letham novel
Townhall.com
Those Bawdy Bratz Babes
The Santa Clara
Our unique college life vocabulary
Who needs Oxford English Dictionary when you have Urban Dictionary?
The Sault Star
What the bleep?; Drink ad leaves some cold
The Stanford Daily
Nat-ural Philosophy: In defense of Stanford Duck Syndrome
Denver Post
Dive into Christmas in May
April
xtra.ca
Liberation starts with masturbation
The Register-Guard
Boundless blogs
AppScout
Define This!: Adventures with Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary: The high holy of Internet linguistic references.
The News & Observer
Comedy goes for shock
Linguistic Mystic
Censoring the Dictionary
The Lexicographer's Rules
Info on How to Purge OS X Dictionary of Dirty Words Compared to Book-Burning
Malibu Arts Reviews
Silenced: Progressive Sites Censored
Chicago Tribune
'Meh' joins ranks of little words that do grunt work
Urban Dictionary: It's da bomb.
Urban Dictionary is a good way to waste several minutes.
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Amadan evolves on new disc
New York Sun
After Grilling by Sharpton, Imus Is Suspended
The Monroe Times
Speak easy
Urban Dictionary: for even the most clueless of unhipsters.
FeedBurner Blog
Headline Animator Overhaul
The Orion
Urban Dictionary slings slang for oblivious uber-newbs
Bust out your pimped-out Sidekick, type in that shiznat and booyah, you got your definition.
outsports
Billy Packer "fags out" on Charlie Rose
Newsday
CBS's Packer creates stir with comments
The Adam Carolla Show
My Humps
jonylee @ msn spaces
The only dictionary you need in the United States
March
The Guardian
The lyrical Democrat
Willamette Week
Great Moments in Vancouver History
Newsday
Cool2Know
KTSP Minneapolis
Parents: Find out what your kids are really saying
Learn the definition to just about any slang term on Urban Dictionary.
Washington Post
Judge rejects web porn law
Columbia Missourian
Sax machines
24 Hours Vancouver
Word out: Urban slang for the urbane
Slang for the people, by the people.
Idolator
The Kids Of Today May Be Swinging On The Flippity-Flop
TV with MeeVee
American Idol: What's Your Name?...Who's Your Daddy?...Does He Beat-Box, Too?
The Crimson
No Need to 'Fuck the Man'
Twitter
Ask Urban Dictionary
The Woodstock Independent
Discovering the language of teens
To decipher the slang of our son's friends, we may have to bookmark Urban Dictionary.
Toronto Star
Invented words of the week
tiekitwist
An Inconvenient Snow
Urban Dictionary: Every college student's best resource.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Online: Defining Moments
Urban Dictionary is an ever-expanding lexicon of hip-speak, teen talk and tech lingo.
Urban Dictionary words certainly shouldn't be part of anyone's active vocabulary.
Toronto Star
10 things we learned this week
Urban Dictionary takes English to the next level, and beyond that too.
Badger Herald
Readers' relationship, sex worries answered
Rochester City Newspaper
Oddities: Urban Dictionary
Urban Dictionary creates new cultural expressions instead of being a mere reference for existing urban slang.
sfist
Get Gleeful
North by Northwestern
Sexiling 101
yelp
Urban Dictionary
Atlanta Journal Constitution
DeKalb commissioner turns his attention to youth slang
Urban Dictionary offers a daily dose of "useful translations" of hipster talk.
poppedcollars @ blogspot
why popped
Extremely funny and equally offensive to all parties involved, Urban Dictionary is always a good cultural check.
Fortune
I'd rather be multislacking, but I need the Kraft Singles!
Urban Dictionary could give grammarians a coronary. But it's an incredibly useful translation tool - as well as a measure of the pulse on the times.
Fortune
I'd rather be multislacking, but I need the Kraft Singles!
If you don't know Urban Dictionary, you should.
Puzzle Pirates
Ship naming conventions
2theadvocate
Pop Quiz: Stacy Fife
iperceptions
The Importance of Being Urban
Urban Dictionary: unedited, unabridged, and utterly uncontrollable.
February
Toronto Star
10 things we learned this week
Without Urban Dictionary, heated debates over what a dingleberry or tea-bagging really are, would go unsettled.
Daily Princetonian
A slap in the facebook
Urban Dictionary: Our generation's OED.
The Florida Times-Union
Best bets on the net
PopMatters
The Red Envelope Held Saw Over All
Urban Dictionary informs me that "Netflix" has become a verb, as in, "I want to see that movie; I'll have to Netflix it."
Slate
How the Internet is saving the interjection
stalebetty.com
Safari Inquisitor
Eureka Times-Standard
Coffee roaster found guilty on grounds of libel
The Globe And Mail
The New Climate Almanac
newsnet5, Ohio
Ghost Riders Put Lives At Risk
Chicago Reader
The Doing Time in Their Prime Players
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Have a what?
Philadelphia Daily News
That's one ugly job
Community Press
Tree huggers aren't so kooky after all
Urban Dictionary: This is not for the faint of heart, my friends.
The Stanford Daily
In Pursuit of the Epic
Urban Dictionary: The height of hip, the pulse of the youth.
Lindenhurst High School
Lindenhurst High School victimized by vandals
The Times
Wimping it
I have seen the future of slang dictionaries, and its name is Urban Dictionary.
The Times
Wimping it
Urban Dictionary makes paper dictionaries look like dinosaurs glancing up at a rapidly approaching meteorite.
Times Literary Supplement
Nuff said
Urban Dictionary offers a relentlessly expanding, up-to-the-minute lowdown on current speech in a way that is impossible to match.
nba.com
Rookie Report
about.com
Fines for Distracted Walkers?
New York Magazine
Rolling and Reading
chicagoist
Will Urban Dictionary Be Next?
The Stanford Daily
Stanford fashion police: If only it existed...
Wisconsin State Journal
Slang time: Test your lingo IQ
January
Lincoln Journal Star
This 'brake dancing' is serious
New York Times
Tour companies catering to men
uiuc.edu
A Space of One's Own
Urban Dictionary: Pop culture's up-to-the-minute lexicon.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Time for Nuggets' Anthony to stop 'keeping it real'
Urban Dictionary: Online guide to pop-culture terminology.
Urban Dictionary: usually crude; always entertaining.
McAllen Monitor
OMG! Dude, get crunk with the lingo
IraqSlogger
Urban Dictionary: What's Really In Words
Here it is, the living and breathing language.
For those who are interested in contemporary American slang, Urban Dictionary provides an excellent place to start.
therawstory
Speaker Pelosi's phrase makes it into 'Urban Dictionary'
Pelosi is the first-ever female Speaker to create a phrase that actually made it into the Urban Dictionary.
The Inquirer
Everywhere Girl defined in Urban Dictionary: Stick that up your wiki
Wonkette
Gossip Roundup
Nancy Pelosi coins first non-dirty phrase to make it onto Urban Dictionary: Marble Ceiling.
Outta Tracy's Head
This Slang Ain't For Sissies
Urban Dictionary: Not for the faint of heart.
alphaDictionary
How Many Words?
Forget editing and proofreading. Urban Dictionary has dozens of definitions for each word.
Urban Dictionary: Awesome repository of time-sensitive slang.
Actually, you should not read Urban Dictionary. It has adult terms.
Delaware News Journal
TV's men get friendlier
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Someone should've intercepted that fashion fumble
New York Observer
A Glimpse of the Future, And--Yikes--It's Bad!
Cleveland Leader
5 Sites You Should Know
Urban Dictionary is the best slang dictionary ever assembled. It will have you laughing for hours.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Anointing the word that defined '06
National Post
For those irate etymology mavens hangry for a new linguistic Wikiality
The Globe and Mail
Words gone bad: Tired phrases ought to go missing
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