The act of scrambling onto UrbanDictionary.com to quickly find out the definition of a word, usually when used over texts or IM. Used to cover up the fact that you did not know the meaning of the word prior to its use.

Commonly abbreviated to UDCU.
> Person A: "yo dude, that jam was live last night."
> Person B: *quickly does an urban dictionary cover-up*
> "yeah, that was a pretty cool party."

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a-comin
acrodomatia
adaptive expectation
adoratrice
all cargo ship
amberboin
Any Questions?
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armeniaceous
aurei
Aurolzmunster
autopasters
Belcamp
Berkovitsa
black kites
bleed dry
blend spinning
books of exodus
Camellia tetracocca
cellular logic operation
cellular swelling
Chaplinesque
character-portrayal
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choreartiums
consumer involvement
crokinole
cultural course
cytoid body
Da Chaihu Tang
damping key
direction equation
discoursal
elde
energy statistics
euthalia formosana
evil-willing
federal open market committee
feed stock selection
fibrinolyses
fiddler's news
first order levelling
fuel tank check valve
give somebody the eye
glotto-
glucose-insulin-potassium salt solution
gypsography
haematocrit monitoring following burns
Hatoma-jima
high alcohol
HLL (high level language)
homans
Junker bottle
leefe
left rudder
Malay fowl
maritime satellite data switching exchange
marked whale
minimum safe lateral clearance
Muong
Naturno
new-broach
not yet diagnosed
office printing
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Terrenate
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tetraethylene glycol dimethyl ether
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to make a move
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Tuscan style
two-sided sequence
tympanosympathectomy
unignore
unit commissioning
unkinkable rope
unpowered rudder
Unsikaupunki
usen
user's business
wellstored
xiphisterna
xylorimba
yeasaying