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urban legend
noun
- a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror:
Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?
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Word History and Origins
Origin of urban legend1
First recorded in 1970–75
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Example Sentences
As The Miami Herald declared in a recent headline, “Obamacare enrollees become urban legend.”
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I always thought it was an urban legend that the VW Bus is the most dangerous vehicle ever made.
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In her deposition, she told plaintiffs attorneys that she considered drug diversion an “urban legend” and a “folktale.”
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Think of the readiness to accept the (utterly bogus) urban legend about the Super Bowl leading to wife-beating.
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But in 2009, McGillis squashed that urban legend in an interview with the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News.
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