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word recycling

In compound words, word recycling constitutes the removal of extra letters from the separate base words so as to shorten the spelling of the compound word without compromising readability.

Thus, "cellphone" becomes "celphone".
"Word recycling is part of the new wave of super-efficient language skills."

"She was just being lazy and word recycling everything."
by Gunther Hayes December 19, 2008
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word bombed

Excessively long, rambling text messages
by Plasmaguy January 27, 2015
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empty word

A word that either:

A) Has no real meaning, or
B) Wouldn’t be used for whatever reason.
Person A: I put my name on Urban Dictionary!
Person B: Why would you do that?
Person A: Because I want to.
Person B: Leave empty words out of the dictionary.
by ChameleonDragon June 1, 2018
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Word to hood

Used around friends or group of people to show where you are from. Usually to rep ya shit or the hood youre from. Saying this may end up with somebody dying or going to die.
Yo bro watch ya f*cking mouth, word to hood !
by ImTheRealBigPoppa February 24, 2019
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Rabbi Words

Boring or meaningless fluff, filler, or bullshit.
The wedding ceremony was a bunch of Hebrew and Rabbi Words, but the party was great.
by Jewcy February 25, 2019
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word on the curb

by Kitchala June 7, 2017
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Word Inception

When you look up the definition of a word and it has another word that you do not know.
Oliver Googled a word which used another word he didn't know to explain it so he was caught in word inception
by J. Crow March 11, 2017
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