urban legend
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urban legend

noun

Definition of URBAN LEGEND

: an often lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true <the urban legend of alligators living in the sewers> —called also urban myth

First Known Use of URBAN LEGEND

1968

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