Urban Dictionary: The Dictionary of Slang
Get up to date with all of the hippest slang and new phrases by visitng UrbanDictionary.com.
Juan Bernal
Issue date: 9/30/05 Section: Life & Times
The other day I was playing pickup basketball and someone accidentally bumped into me. I said "You straight co". He looked at me like I had just said some derogatory remark, but obviously he had no idea what I was talking about.
So before anything else occurred I told him that it was fine, it was no problem, it's just a way of saying that everything is all good. He said he was terribly sorry, and that he wasn't inclined to the modern vernacular.
In modern lingo, many people confuse or give words multiple meanings, or some people just don't know what you are talking about half the time. Some call it black talk or ghetto talk. Others just generalize it as the way every teenager or young person talks. Whether it's a rap song saying "Bar sippin, car tippin, still woodgrain rippin" (Mike Jones featuring Paul Wall and Slim Thug- Still Tippin) or a friend asking you to go to the beach because he "wants to mack some dimepieces," there is one place where you can go to find out what these words mean and how they are used, it's www.urbandictionary.com.
Urban Dictionary's slogan states that it is "a slang dictionary with your definitions". But you can find more than words on Urban Dictionary. You can look up 210 different definitions for George Bush, 21 definitions for the word party, 79 definitions for gangsta and a staggering 240 definitions for the f-word.
Many of the definitions that you find on Urban Dictionary are highly opinionated, but what do you expect from a website that receives about 1,000 definitions daily?
But don't just think that you can post anything on Urban Dictionary. Typically, a submission takes about 2 days, but some can take up to three weeks. Also, the editing panel dislikes most long definitions and examples, and as a user you can suggest that any term be removed for whatever reason.
Everywhere you go, anything you see, or anyone/anything you listen to, chances are that you'll find some form of slang. Some people say that they can't listen to a song, because they don't want to waste their time trying to understand it. Or, when you get acquainted with people, many people will say "that's my dawg", "my co", "my homes", when referring to a friend; or some guys refer to their girlfriend and vice-versa as "my boo". Or when you go into a fast food joint, chances are the person that is attending you will greet you with a "Watup dawg" or a "What it do?" instead of a " How can I help you" or a "How are you doing?"
Part of this has to do with how hip hop music and clothing has transcended our culture, and that everyone is just trying to sound cool.
Whether you're bar sippin, car tippin or woodgrain rippin (sipping on a drink in a bar, cruising in your car, or being comical or highly energized about the material on your dashboard, respectively), going to the beach to try to mack some dimepieces (going to the beach to try to pick up some beautiful women) or just chillin at your crib (your house watching TV) and you happen to run across the Snoop Dogg commercial saying " Fo shizzle my nizzle, it's the big Snoop-d-o-double gizzle it's hard to avoid and understand.
So in case you are not up to date with today's hip way of talking, a few minutes on Urban Dictionary could catch you up in no time.
So before anything else occurred I told him that it was fine, it was no problem, it's just a way of saying that everything is all good. He said he was terribly sorry, and that he wasn't inclined to the modern vernacular.
In modern lingo, many people confuse or give words multiple meanings, or some people just don't know what you are talking about half the time. Some call it black talk or ghetto talk. Others just generalize it as the way every teenager or young person talks. Whether it's a rap song saying "Bar sippin, car tippin, still woodgrain rippin" (Mike Jones featuring Paul Wall and Slim Thug- Still Tippin) or a friend asking you to go to the beach because he "wants to mack some dimepieces," there is one place where you can go to find out what these words mean and how they are used, it's www.urbandictionary.com.
Urban Dictionary's slogan states that it is "a slang dictionary with your definitions". But you can find more than words on Urban Dictionary. You can look up 210 different definitions for George Bush, 21 definitions for the word party, 79 definitions for gangsta and a staggering 240 definitions for the f-word.
Many of the definitions that you find on Urban Dictionary are highly opinionated, but what do you expect from a website that receives about 1,000 definitions daily?
But don't just think that you can post anything on Urban Dictionary. Typically, a submission takes about 2 days, but some can take up to three weeks. Also, the editing panel dislikes most long definitions and examples, and as a user you can suggest that any term be removed for whatever reason.
Everywhere you go, anything you see, or anyone/anything you listen to, chances are that you'll find some form of slang. Some people say that they can't listen to a song, because they don't want to waste their time trying to understand it. Or, when you get acquainted with people, many people will say "that's my dawg", "my co", "my homes", when referring to a friend; or some guys refer to their girlfriend and vice-versa as "my boo". Or when you go into a fast food joint, chances are the person that is attending you will greet you with a "Watup dawg" or a "What it do?" instead of a " How can I help you" or a "How are you doing?"
Part of this has to do with how hip hop music and clothing has transcended our culture, and that everyone is just trying to sound cool.
Whether you're bar sippin, car tippin or woodgrain rippin (sipping on a drink in a bar, cruising in your car, or being comical or highly energized about the material on your dashboard, respectively), going to the beach to try to mack some dimepieces (going to the beach to try to pick up some beautiful women) or just chillin at your crib (your house watching TV) and you happen to run across the Snoop Dogg commercial saying " Fo shizzle my nizzle, it's the big Snoop-d-o-double gizzle it's hard to avoid and understand.
So in case you are not up to date with today's hip way of talking, a few minutes on Urban Dictionary could catch you up in no time.