Word Crazes: Slang Dictionaries

摘要

If you think being "off your hinges" is a bad thing, you need to spend time reading the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urban dictionary.com). You'll learn that "off the hinges" is like the phrase "off the hook" (current slang that means "great" or "outstanding"). The Urban Dictionary's motto is "define your world" because users can submit their own definitions. You even can submit illustrations and sound files. The site calls itself "a living catalog of human interaction and popular culture created by hundreds of thousands of people, and read by millions." Yahoo! bills it as the most popular slang dictionary on the Web. But it certainly isn't the only one; Yahoo! lists about 50 other "slanguage" sites. Here's the 411 on a few of them.