‘Urban Farmer’ defined as – the trend for young jam tart types to dress in country regalia

Three definitions of “urban farmer” at Urban Dictionary

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1. Urban Farmer

April 28, 2010 Urban Word of the Day

A person who constantly plays Farmville and acts like they know everything about a real farm — but all they do is live in the city, sit at a computer, and at a certain time, need to stop what they are doing to farm their imaginary crops.

Example: “Carly won’t shut up about her stupid farm and throwing sheep. What an urban farmer.”

2. Urban Farmer

The trend for young jam tart types to dress in country regalia.

Example: “Who’s that Will Young, urban farmer type working that stall at Spitalfield’s?”

3. Urban Farmer

A person who reads random words on urbandictionary.com, by clicking on the random button. May spend up to hours finding new words/definitions.

Example: “Dude, that guy is an Urban farmer. He has been looking for random words all this day.”

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The site was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham while he was a freshman computer science major at California Polytechnic State University. One of the first definitions on the site was “the man”, referring to “the head of the establishment put in place to ‘bring us down.

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