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Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, [1] urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music .
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
Urban forest inequity, inequitable distribution of trees, with their associated benefits, across metropolitan areas; Urban forestry, land use management system in which trees or shrubs are cared or protected for well-being; Urban reforestation, planting of trees in urban environments; All pages with titles beginning with urban
Guido (/ ˈ ɡ w iː d oʊ /, Italian:) is a North American subculture, slang term, and ethnic slur referring to working-class urban Italian-Americans. The guido stereotype is multi-faceted. At one point, the term was used more generally as a disparaging term for Italians and people of Italian descent.
Urban culture is the culture of towns and cities. The defining theme is the presence of a large population in a limited space that follows social norms . [ 1 ] This makes it possible for many subcultures close to each other, exposed to social influence without necessarily intruding into the private sphere . [ 2 ]
Culinary companies like VeganHood and Ghetto Gastro are making it known that words specific to Black American culture are to be celebrated, not denigrated.
YouTube content creator attempting to behave in a ratchet manner. Ratchet is a slang term in American hip hop culture that, in its original sense, [1] was a derogatory term used to refer to an uncouth woman, and may be a Louisianan dialect form of the word "wretched".
[11] The word was a runner-up for the Oxford Dictionaries 2014 Word of the Year. [12] Barrett nominated it for the American Dialect Society's 2013 Word of the Year. [4] The term has been adopted by corporate social media. The Twitter account Brands Saying Bae highlights the use of corporate Twitter accounts employing the term.