Social media users are looking up their own names on Urban Dictionary and are sharing the flattering (and not so flattering) results. For those who have never ventured to the website before, Urban ...

Asking a biologist to define 'life' is a bit like looking-up the word 'definition' in a dictionary — it's as if you're questioning their very existence. Biologists like myself don't agree on what life ...

A dictionary attack is a brute-force technique where attackers run through common words and phrases, such as those from a dictionary, to guess passwords. The fact people often use simple, ...

On January 24, 2017, a user by the name of d0ughb0y uploaded a definition to Urban Dictionary, the popular online lexicon that relies on crowdsourced definitions. Under Donald Trump—who, four days ...

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Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

We spoke with Dictionary.com’s social media team, which has a lot more to say than just what words mean. The website’s Twitter account now goes far beyond vocabulary-building blasts, seizing instead ...

Dictionary is a Firefox addon that will display advertisements in search result pages and web sites that you visit. When installed, Dictionary injects a javascript script into web sites that you visit ...

"Blue Anon" is a term coined by conservatives attacking those who push "left-wing conspiracy theories." The phrase returned to the Urban Dictionary website after it appeared to have been temporarily ...

It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects “social trends and global events that defined that year” and “reveals the stories we tell about ourselves and how we’ve changed over the ...