Cool Site: Urban Dictionary

If, like me, you are getting to be an old fart, and more than a little curmudgeonly, and you just can't fathom what is the kids are saying these days (is that English?), then you need the Urban Dictionary.

And just in case you haven't figured out how all the tubes function that make up the internet, you can get the Urban Dictionary in book form, as well -- but you'll probably have to get someone else to do it for you.

Phat, popular and portable.

Urban Dictionary: The Book hits the shelves with more than 2,000 of Urban Dictionary's funniest, smartest, crunkest defs.

It's more than a dictionary. It's a catalog of popular culture you helped write. Now it brings to the world these words and more:

• compunicate - to chat with someone in the same room via instant messaging service instead of in person
• business provocative - attire used to provoke sexual attention in the workplace
• dandruff - a person who "flakes out" and ditches their friends
• ringtone DJ - an annoying person who shuffles through all of their ringtones incessantly
• ginormous - the combination of gigantic and enormous

The site has random words popping across the top of the screen, a word of the day feature, and lots of other fun stuff -- including the option to add new words.

Tags: Urban Dictionary, slang, language, culture