Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.comGenerally meaning "out of nowhere"....
Gets 12000 Ghits but less than 1000 if you reject hits containing rightpond refs, eg, "uk, brit, aussie, nz....." etc. Has any of you leftponders ever heard the expr--Thanks all
This South Leftpondian has never heard it.
ditto.
You might be better off querying a group of urban yoots, if you can find them, Dale.
Anna: In effect that's what I did when I queried UD
However I'm not surprised that nobody has responded as clearly it's almost exclusively a rightpond expr, while I gather we don't have many such members
Hello. First Post.
If there's 12,000 hits, I guess someone says it. thanx for the link to the urbandictionary.
I was less than impressed with this 'wikipedia' of dictionaries. One imagines that people post anything they choose, whether the word/phrase has obtained usage or not. After one imagines this, it is confirmed by entries; one word (three words actually, well, one letter and two words) meaning "joint" is credited to a person who coined it during a random smoke session.
The first entry I viewed was "Calabrese" defined (on recollection only) as from Calabria. This is urban slang?
>I was less than impressed with this 'wikipedia' of dictionaries.
not to be confused with Wiktionary, a sister project of Wikipædia
FNA: Indeed UD gets bad marks from many quarters. However, they are often the first to spot a neologism, and several entries with similar defs is a good sign, especially if they mostly rate thumbs up