Urban Slang 101

If you often find yourself perplexed at what's coming out of the mouths of young urbanites these days, here are a few words from the online Urban Dictionary to help you understand what you don't:

frontin' - Urban slang. To put up a facade or make appearances, typically to impress or in some way deceive to maintain image. From 'to front'.

He be frontin' - that Benz be a rental!

dooced - 1.) To be fired from you job because of the contents of your blog. 2.) to lose one’s job because of one’s website. 3.) To have all social hell break loose when people you know and/or family members finally find and read your blog.

Dude, did you hear what happen to Mary, she got dooced.

podestrian - A person who can be spotted with the iconic white standard iPod earbuds in their ears. Derived from a combination of iPod and Pedestrian.

I saw 3 podestrians wait for a bus.

pedestrian - An insult applied to people who do something stupid or senseless.

I can't believe you shot him, you pedestrian!

man crush - 1.) For a man to have a very close platonic friendship and/or admiration for another man. 2.) When a straight man has a "crush" on another man, not sexual but kind of idolizing him.

"Ben Affleck has had a man crush on Matt Damon for a long time."