# UL?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 30, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467 "2001-10-30T05:10:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467/1 "2001-10-30T05:10:00Z")

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Lately I’ve noticed a lot of uses of the term UL. What does it mean?

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467/2 "2001-10-30T05:19:32Z")

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Most likely it’s short for “urban legend”.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467/3 "2001-10-30T10:04:08Z")

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Also

(USA) ‘Urban Legend’ [sym]º[/sym] (UK) ‘Urban Myth’

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**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467/4 "2001-10-30T16:35:39Z")

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Thanks, everybody.

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**Author:** ![Friday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dec6dc/32.png) [@Friday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Friday)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ul/90467/5 "2001-10-30T16:47:54Z")

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However, if it’s on that new alarm clock you bought, then it means [this](http://www.ul.com).

(Don’t mind me, just testing hyperlinks without the url, and I wanted to stay away from **wolfstu’s** [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=95796).)