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  2. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...

  3. Rooftop Koreans - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Times stated there were multiple people on the roof of the grocery with "shotguns and automatic weapons". [2] [4] Ebony magazine noted the use of "rifles and handguns." [9] Because South Korea had at the time a thirty-month mandatory military service for males, it was noted that many Korean immigrants had experience with ...

  4. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    1. Often a cake eater was the opposite of a flapper e.g.The individual is dressed in tight-fitting attire, including a belted coat with pointed lapels, one-button pants, a low snug collar, and a greenish-pink shirt with a jazzbo tie; see flaming youth [21] 2. Spoiled rich person; Playboy [83] 3. Lady's man [84] 4.

  5. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    disgusting, dirty, poor quality (originally from grotesque, though now rarely used with quite that meaning). In a scene from the 1964 film A Hard Day's Night , George Harrison has to explain the meaning and origin of the word; the impression is given that it was then considered modern slang, known only to trendy youngsters (this is no longer ...

  7. Offensive rape joke t-shirt pulled from retail store, incites ...

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    This t-shirt controversy comes just a week after Urban Outfitters faced similar backlash for what appeared to be a blood-splattered vintage. Kent State University sweatshirt. Many felt it was a ...

  8. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The word may be related to the Dutch word nestig, or "dirty". [73] It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes 's Leviathan , that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".

  9. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız