Syllable 

a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants.

Ex: Notice has two syllables, i.e., No-tice

Syllable by AngelBlack June 4, 2015

syllable 

A syllable is one part of a word. For example, the word syllable has THREE syllables. It is sih-la-bul, not S-hil-a-b-le!!

Use it or lose it!!

Learn to count the number of syllables in a word, you dictionary newbies.

syllable by brahm2 September 28, 2003

syllable 

Something that nobody on urban dictionary realizes exists. As can be easily seen through the pronunciation of words like wordcool. Note that multiple pronunciations have multiple hypens, and a hyphen denotes a syllabic break, when cool is only one syllable and needs no hyphenation.

Cool is a one syllable word, but apparantly is pronounced K-ew-l, which is 3 syllables.
Slut is also one syllable, but according to some jackass, it is pronounced S-Lut.

syllable by visual77 September 2, 2003

Syllable Sliding 

A term coined by west coast Hip-Hop artist Anilyst. His song Triple Threat, which recieved over 7 million hits on youtube, is the first song to demonstrate "Syllable Sliding"…he describes it as "a form of rap that is more elaborate than the average way of rhyming….it’s the ability to rhyme each and every syllable in a bar with the other syllables in the next bar while still having it make sense and be clear, and while projecting subliminal messages and endless metaphors. This is Syllable Sliding.” He even rightfully named his first album "Syllable Sliding Vol. 1".

Yeah, you're a pretty good rapper, but let's see how good you are at syllable sliding.

Syllable Sliding by Alen Perez September 7, 2013

Syllable Beatings 

Syllable Beatings is a form a punishment where the parent,guardian, friend, or figure in the active role; spanks or hits the person in the passive role(receiving), in a rhythmic fashion that aligns with the words that they are saying. For each word that is spouted out, a blow or series of blows hits the receiver for each syllable in that word.

In the most common cases of Syllable Beatings. The parent or guardian will tell the child what to do or not to do as each blow connects. The length of the sentence and beating is determined by what the child did wrong and the general mood of the parent. An upset parent and a child that made a wrong involving a noun with a more than average amount of syllables, will result in a longer beating.

In some cases however, some parents catch on to a short session of Syllable Beating, and will add additional syllables to the beating, to prolong the length of the disciplinary action.

Example:
Don't *spank* you *spank* ever *spank* break * My * Re * frig * er * a * tor * a * gain * or * I * will * beat * you * sense * less *

Tommy: My mom gave me syllable beatings last night... I should have broken a cup instead to shorten the length of the beating.

Tommy's Brother: Nah man, it didn't matter what you broke, mom was in a bad mood. She was going to make it last long no matter what!

Syllable Beatings by Feybred April 20, 2020

single-syllable reply 

Constantly replying with "yea. No. Sure. K. Nice. Kden" and other such meaningless and mostly non existing words. It is a great way to get even your friends to hate you

Pers 1: Hey dude, I just earned $100 of your painting! the guy loved it!
Pers 2: Cool.
Pers 1: Can you please stop the single-syllable reply?!
Pers 2: Sure.

single-syllable reply by CyrinPlays May 22, 2015

Words of one syllable or less

Phrase used when advising somebody of facts /an issue /and explanation (etc) using the most simplest of words in order that they may understand.

Often associated with 'full and frank conversation' the phrase 'words of one syllable or less' is actually gramatically incorrect in its use of 'or less' (essentially 'or less' makes no sense whereas 'or fewer' would be correct) but nicely conveys the situation.

Believed to have originated with the staff of Britain's railways in Southern England.

"What do you mean Bert has done it wrong again?

I'd better go and explain how to do it in words of one syllable or less"

Words of one syllable or less by Clansman July 12, 2009