![]() ![]() He picks the “urban word of the day.” Every day. (The band has about 50 mentions on the site.) “Ironically, Adam shaved his head in February!” the kind flack e-mailed back. From Taking Back Sunday, which is locked in the studio and not talking to anyone, according to the band’s publicist at Warner Bros. But the use-it-in-a-sentence example is already outdated: “Adam Lazzara and Tom DeLonge have sexy emo hair.” The entry states, “Hair style that covers the face, usually swept in an angle.” Fair enough. “It just kind of shows how important emo is to my audience.”Īs with the music itself, there are subgenres – take emo hair. “Emo is a genre of music, and I guess it describes a melodramatic teenager,” the compiler of e-lexicon says. The word with the most meanings is emo, with 697 definitions and redefinitions at last count. Peckham says he has made up fewer than 20 of the site’s definitions – he gives props (proper recognition) to the site’s contributors. They have guidelines for posting definitions, on which readers of the site – there are 140,000 unique page views a day – vote for the best and worst meanings. Peckham says he has 40,000 volunteers working as editors around the world. Feel free to take it, Peckham: “That big bully gave me such an atomic wedgie, my hair got messed up and I couldn’t walk right for a week.”) Ouch.) All entries are used in a sentence, too. ![]() (The consensus is a wedgie in which the underwear is pulled over the victim’s head. Yes, anyone can add a definition for atomic wedgie. On a busy day, 2,000 submissions cross the e-transom. The site, a perpetual electronic work in progress – just like, except more fun – that’s “not appropriate for all audiences,” receives an average of 1,500 daily submissions. (The most politically correct way to translate, according to the book: “I concur with you wholeheartedly, my African-American brother.”) One of Peckham’s proudest moments came in 2003, when, during a copyright dispute between two English rap groups, a British high court judge used the site to decipher the meaning of fo’ shizzle my nizzle – the parlance made famous on this side of the pond by hip-hopper Snoop Dogg. “Before I knew it, I had a really big audience in Australia,” the recent Google hire says. Soon, news of the site spread by word-of-keyboard around the globe. In the early days, ’s entries were written by Peckham’s friends. Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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