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An A-Z Look at Urban Dictionary's Literary Lexicon
By BBP Intern

Calling all fictionsexuals and bibliosexuals! Here's an alphabetical list of literary terms we bet even you weren't familiar with, culled from the geeky and disturbed pages of Urban Dictionary. Feel free to use them at your next book club meeting — assuming you haven't already committed book club seppuku.

compiled by Rebecca Hoffman and Kate Gavino

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