I have know about the Urban Dictionary for a while now, but I happened across it yesterday while looking for definitions of eurotrash, of all things. (I will soon be eurotrash of the best variety). There are loads of varied, interesting and humorous definitions for this term.

The idea behind the Urban Dictionary is simple: users create terms and define them; then other users come along and vote on the validity of the term and how it's defined.

The result is a collective dictionary with various terms for loads of slang words and expressions, including those hot off the street. Some of the terms are vulgar, but most aren't. And there are loads of new terms to discover. It is fun to poke around and see what kind of freestyle language is happening throughout the (mostly US) English-speaking world. Here are several I ran across: collateral misinformation, terrorist voting and expiration dating.

People are good with melding language to their needs, and English is a particularly promiscuous language, in my humble opinion. It flaunts foreign terms left and right, makes nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns and so on. English is a very selfless language, in this respect. It absorbs, morphs, much like a chameleon. Freestyle English - check it out at Urban Dictionary.

FYI: If this article interests you, I wrote about another take on this type of freestyle English use the other day: Verbotomy.com Community for Truly Freestyle English Language Verbiage