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Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
None of the dictionary.com sources mention gen z, and it's not a terribly reliable source anyway. English-Grammar-Lessons.com is another unreliable source. The entire list is filled with issues like these. Sources should be reliable and discuss the slang being used by gen z.
Besides common examples, lesser known slang and slang with a non-English etymology have also found a place in standardized linguistic references. Along with these instances, literature in user-contributed dictionaries such as Urban Dictionary has also been added to. Codification seems to be qualified through frequency of use, and novel ...
To some extent it depends on the dictionary and the edition... Dr. Johnson's dictionary of the 1600 - 1700s could probably count as a primary source. I agree with Wjhonson that the OED should be considered a secondary source. And many modern dictionaries (especially those on-line) are tertiary in that they simply copy other dictionaries.
An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.
The Urban Dictionary and Pennsylvania Langauge Log sources reflect common usage of the term 'mung' so far as i have ever heard it used. If that is the only additional criteria muchness is demanding then it seems pstrait's definition should stay up.
In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
This article uses Urban Dictionary as a source, twice. It says on the article "Wikipedia:Reliable sources" that user-generated content is not a reliable source, so I'll be taking Urban Dictionary as a source out. Feel free to discuss this edit, though.