Browsing page 34 of "L" words

noun

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  Citation from "Oxford Word of the Year 2008: Hypermiling", Oxford University Press Blog, November 10 2008 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Word was a semi-finalist in the New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year for 2008 selection.

  Last edited on May 26 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 05 2010.

• the process by which links on the World Wide Web stop functioning, because the target of the link no longer exists.

  Last edited on Oct 03 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

noun - uncountable

• the breakage of links on the web as their targets disappear.

  We need to update our "Resources" page. It's suffering from link rot.

  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

noun - uncountable

• the outstanding play by New York Knicks' guard Jeremy Lin. It is used instead of "insanity".

  Last edited on Feb 21 2013. Submitted by Searcized from Nashville, TN, USA on Feb 17 2012.

• entrepreneur, or someone running things, lion meaning power and leadership within the one man's creation.

  Yo was up lion?

  Yo he's a lion yo he owns all this area this is his territory.

  Last edited on May 16 2011. Submitted by TILO on Dec 05 2004.

verb

• "lying". Can be either an incorrectly used word (due to the similarity in pronunciation of "lion" and "lyin'") or a reference to the Internet meme of a picture of a lion with the caption "He's lion."

  Last edited on Jun 07 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Jun 07 2013.

• the wife to a man considered "lion", or one's wife or girlfriend.

  Last edited on Jun 07 2013. Submitted by TILO on Dec 05 2004.