Urban Dictionary Aaron Peckham, who started the online site Urban Dictionary in 1999 when he was a freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, stands with his laptop open to the website at the Ferry ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination ...

“Clatterdevengeance” is Jonathon Green’s favorite slang word, and he is in a position to have one. Green, known on Twitter as Mister Slang, is the world’s foremost English slang lexicographer and the ...

As more go online, Oxford English Dictionary may go digital-only. Aug. 31, 2010— -- Is the printed dictionary on its way to being the latest casualty of the Internet age? Rightly or wrongly, the ...

Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, entertainment, pop culture and digital accessibility. In addition to her current role, she's worked for CNET's video, ...

In news that has truly confirmed I’m not ‘with it’, Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year is 67, and the internet is riddled with confusion. In case you’re out of the loop or not a ...

It’s been in print for over a century, but in future the Oxford English Dictionary — the authoritative guide to the English language — may only be available online. Oxford University Press, the ...

First the venerable Oxford Dictionaries named the tears-of-joy emoji 2015's "word" of the year, and then Merriam-Webster went with a suffix: -ism. Dictionary.com had recently sanctioned "fleek" and ...

Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary. The book is the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary, and the general editor is Anne Soukhanov. She's been ...