Skip to main content
Urban Dictionary Merch
Your favorite words on things you can wear, drink from, read, or give to a friend.
The Urban Dictionary Store sells gifts you’ll have to explain.

sherlock holmes 

A fictional character created by author Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle. Set in the late 1800s, this British detective uses deductive reasoning to solve the cases given to him. He has a sidekick named Dr. Johnathan Watson.
Sherlock Holmes is one of the greatest literary characters known to man.
sherlock holmes by Ted Mozby January 14, 2008

sherlock holmes morning 

When you wake up not sure where you are or where you've been. This usually happens after a night of drinking too much, or just enough. The first thing you deduce is where your at. The best is your own bed with a hottie. If not find your pants and try and find someone you know.

After this is done you check your cell phone to see who you called and texted. This may require apologies laterdepending on the time and what sounded good last night.

Then you start checking your surroundings, is that blood or pizza sauce all over my shirt? Why does my leg hurt when I try to stand? Where is my other shoe?

After you make sure that nothing requires medical attention its time to start calling your friends like sherlock holmes to figure out what the hell happened this morning.
I had one hell of a sherlock holmes morning, I woke up on a park bench with a dead squirrel.

Sherlock Holmes 

verb: To discover something interesting or useful via any means of sleuthing necessary.
You looked at her facebook status and saw that she was at a Blue Jacket's game, then recalled a photograph, and googled Blue Jackets. You then discovered it was a hockey team out of Columbus, Ohio. Which lead to your discovery of her presence in Ohio. DANG! You Sherlock Holmes'ed the hell out of that!
Sherlock Holmes by Michael Worton January 9, 2009

Well no dip Sherlock Holmes 

Something you tell someone who states the obvious. More school friendly.

Similar:
No shit! (Less school friendly).
Example:

Guy 1: Hey! It's freaking cold as heck out here!
Guy 2: Well no dip Sherlock Holmes!

sherlock holmes 

sherlock holmes: One really smart motherfucker.

"I just solved a really hard math question!" "Damn man you're sherlock holmes."
sherlock holmes by GeekerMans September 24, 2021

Sherlock Holmes 

A handjob in the movie theatres, usually over the pants.
Guy 1: Dude! Can you believe I got a Sherlock Holmes on the second date?!
Guy 2: No shit?! What movie?
Guy 1: Transformers.
More from Urban Dictionary

Throat Sweats 

The feeling and build up in your mouth/throat of saliva that sometimes accompanies nausea.
Oh man those burritos gave me the throat sweats, I hope I don’t have food poisoning.
Throat Sweats by TacoFings420 April 23, 2024
Word of the Day on October 11, 2026
Being ignored by someone when making a statement or asking a question. Also known as blanked and turfed.
Person 1: Did u watch ** last nite?
Person 2:......
Person 3: O no u got aired!
aired by Pietro February 9, 2005
Word of the Day on October 10, 2026

piddlefart

Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
Word of the Day on October 9, 2026
anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
wrongun by bevvers March 21, 2007
Word of the Day on October 8, 2026

square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
Word of the Day on October 7, 2026
A girl who does ballet and only talks about ballet. Her schedule is filled with dance classes which does not allow her to do any other activity.
"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

"Hey Sally, you want to hang out this weekend?"
"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
Word of the Day on October 6, 2026
Load more