urblej

(n) An urban legend.

Generally speaking, a story that is circulated extensively through either word-of mouth or (more recently) the internet, with little or no basis in fact.

Snopes.com is an excellent resource for such tales.

(Orig: Contraction of 'urban legend')

Many such stories circulated on the internet, no matter how amusing, are generally either pure urblej or hoax.

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