Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined

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Wanna boss out your language for future encounters with Generations Next and Y? Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $12.95) hits the shelves this fall, just in time to upgrade your street cred by 2008!

The world of technology-driven communication has created a new language that begs for definition. Aaron Peckham founded the website that defined a generation when he started Urban Dictionary in 1999. In 2006, about fifty million people visited the site, with one third of those visitors hailing from outside the United States. Every day in 2006, Urban Dictionary visitors sent in an average of 1,700 definitions. Altogether, Urban Dictionary defines about 500,000 terms. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition defines about 600,000 terms.

Hungry for mo'? Here's a sampling from Mo'Urban Dictionary:

• pluto: to downgrade, demote, or remove altogether from a prestigious group or list, like what was done to the planet Pluto. He was plutoed like an old pair of shoes.
• adorkable: both dorky and adorable. A higher state of being all dorks strive toward. That dork is so adorkable I could just hug him until I die.
• Facebook official: the ultimate definition of a college relationship; one's Facebook profile says "In a Relationship" with his or her significant other's name.
  Brie: Are Adam and Courtney dating?
  Tanna: I don't know. They're not Facebook official yet.

Don't be a poser. Full of fresh new lingo following the cult-status of the original Urban Dictionary, Mo' Urban Dictionary offers all the new definitions you need to know to make you the baddest pimp on the streets.

Mos' def.

About Aaron Peckham:

Founded in 1999 by college student Aaron Peckham as a parody of dictionary.com, urbandictionary.com features definitions written by people from all over the world. Since then, Urban Dictionary has been cited in court, in graduation speeches, and by countless news media outlets, including CNN and Time magazine. Aaron listens for the newest words and phrases in San Francisco, CA.

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Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined

Author: Compiled by Aaron Peckham
ISBN: 978-0-7407-6875-0
Format: Paperback: 5 x 7, 240 pages
Price: $12.95 ($14.95 Canada)