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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).
An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture
Dictionary.com implies that the origins for the two meanings had little to do with each other. [116] out of pocket To be crazy, wild, or extreme, sometimes to an extent that is considered too far. [3] [117] owned Used to refer to defeat in a video game, or domination of an opposition. Also less commonly used to describe defeat in sports.
Wright points to the Urban Dictionary definition of “giving life”: “To give something or someone life means to give it or them energy, validity or significance.”
"Shipping" refers to the phenomenon; a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple; to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another; a "shipper" or a "fangirl/boy" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity; and a "shipping war" is when two ships contradict each other, causing fans of each ship to argue.
In the 2004 TV special Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy, when Popeye and his friends find him, he is initially hostile to his son as depicted in earlier tellings of their separation, but it is later revealed Pappy's did not maliciously abandon Popeye, but in fact sought to protect him from the wrath of the Sea Hag, who had a vendetta with ...
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Popeye gets the Sea Hag's good luck coin and uses its power of granting three wishes to whoever holds it to take Olive out to a dancing competition. The Sea Hag takes Olive hostage and magically disguises herself as her so that she can go with Popeye to the dance and get the coin back before he uses up the three wishes.