Used in place of "double-u double-u double-u" before the "dot com" of a website address in spoken conversation. Who has time to spell out that tongue twister anyway?
"Oh, go check out the latest slang at tri-dub urban dictionary dot com."
an alternate way of phrasing the beginning of a Universal Resource Locator aka URL, web address beginning with "www." Instead of "doubleyou, doubleyou, doubleyou", tri-dub abbreviates the same thing.
The name of this website is h t t p, colon, forward slash forward slash, tri-dub, urban dictionary dot com.
I'm tired of saying "www." and while most people don't say that anymore, some websites require that you either include "www" or leave it off in order to be directed to the proper site. Hence the term tri dubs, or triple W's
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.