phantom reading

When you’ve read an entire book but can’t remember a single thing that it said.

In school I was phantom reading.

by Kanonymous123 March 18, 2018

Read p

An insult to tell your friend who wears glasses or who just can’t see

Friend 1: What does that say I can’t see
Friend 2: ugh read p

by Dangerous golf ball June 14, 2021

This Text Is Being Read Aloud

This text is being read aloud is the audio check for R.I.S.E. testing. People will usually change the pitch and the speed of "This text is being read aloud" in an attempt to humor themselves before the fucking test. If you looked this up, you're probably either starting R.I.S.E soon and want to entertain yourself before, or you just ended it and don't know what the hell to do right now.

Janet: I just finished the R.I.S.E. test and I have no idea what to do so I'll just look up This Text Is Being Read Aloud on Urban Dictionary
Sam: Ur stupid

by urmom.com72 May 03, 2022

Dump read

The act of reading a magazine article while taking a dump.

People magazine, Maxim, porn and the daily paper are good dump reads.

by Evilbadkitty June 15, 2013

Third-Reading

When one is reading a romance book and feels as though they are third-wheeling with the characters.

“Omg Rebecca I’m reading this book and I’m totally third-reading with the main ship”

by Omg Rebecca September 16, 2019

aud-read

Listening or listened to an audiobook

I did not read the latest Harry Potter book, but I did aud-read it.

by pennycrypt December 30, 2022

read up on it

What you may literally hafta do if you wanna learn Chinese --- some of their text is arranged in a vertical column that hasta be scanned from the bottom to the top in order to decipher it. Makes ya wonder how the Chinese don't get sore necks from all dat bobble-headed noddin' they do whenever they sit down to read da mornin' paper.

Learning how to make sense of all that fancy vertical signage in Chinatown is fairly simple --- just read up on it.

by QuacksO March 04, 2018