Urban Dictionary belongs on your phone, so we made a new app.
When somebody sends you a word you don't understand, you can search for it quickly. Suggestions appear while you type, and terms inside definitions are linked, so you can follow the definitions to related words.
The Urban Word of the Day is there when you open the app. If a definition is especially useful, or describes a friend a little too accurately, you can save it or send it to them.
The app has no ads to get in your way. If you had the old app, your favorites will come along with you when you update.
The new app is available now on the App Store and Google Play.
The Urban Dictionary Team
When a word is too new, too niche, or too weird for an AI assistant, it guesses. Now yours can look it up instead.
Everything on Urban Dictionary is written by people. If you use Claude, ChatGPT, or a similar assistant, you can connect it to Urban Dictionary, and when it gets stuck on a word it can look up what real people actually wrote here instead of guessing. It can also pull a few random words or the words of the day.
This won't make your assistant right about everything. It just gives it somewhere real to look.
Setup steps are at mcp.urbandictionary.com. (For the technical folks: it's an MCP server.) It's a beta, so things might change. If something's off, please let us know.
The Urban Dictionary Team
In 1999, we started documenting the language that traditional dictionaries ignored. 26 years later, we are doing the same thing, and in the age of AI, it’s even more important.
AI can write a sentence, but it can’t write slang, and it can’t make “fetch” happen. Only you can do that, when you need a new word to describe who you are and how you feel.
ChatGPT can answer “What does this word mean?”, but Urban Dictionary can answer “Does anyone else feel the way I do?”. Every definition makes a connection between someone who felt something and someone else who needed to know they weren’t alone.
In the near future, you can expect more tools for contributors, more features, and stronger community. The next 26 years for us is about protecting authentic human expression.
Thank you to everyone who has defined, voted on and read definitions. You’re helping create an archive of how humans actually speak in the 21st century.
Happy Birthday, Urban Dictionary!
Aaron
CEO
Earlier this year, I made a difficult decision to temporarily remove a critical feature Urban Dictionary has had since 1999: voting on definitions.
As the internet changed, our voting system had become increasingly vulnerable to manipulation. What worked in 1999 doesn't work in 2025.
When the feature went offline, we heard from many of you: Urban Dictionary's democracy doesn't function without voting. You were right.
One person, one vote
As of election week, voting is back, but it works differently. We've rebuilt the system with modern anti-bot verification to ensure that every up and down vote comes from a real human, not from a machine.
The new voting process is a little slower, but it's worth it to ensure votes are real. The internet is flooded with AI-generated content. Urban Dictionary will continue to choose human authenticity over inflated numbers.
Urban Dictionary has always been about documenting modern language, and responding to the needs of the people who use it. Thank you for caring, noticing that something was missing, and for telling us about it.
Go vote!
Aaron
Urban Dictionary
For 25 years, Urban Dictionary has been the home of modern language. Now, with Urban Dictionary Promote, we're launching a simple way for you to advertise here.
How it works:
No confusing pricing or complicated targeting. Just pick a word and go.
We built this for indie brands, creators, and anyone who wants a straightforward way to advertise. Every ad is reviewed by our team.
When you're ready to try it, click here: urbandictionary.biz
❤️ Aaron and the Urban Dictionary Team