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urban legend

noun

a modern story of obscure origin and with little or no supporting evidence that spreads spontaneously in varying forms and often has elements of humor, moralizing, or horror:
Are there alligators living in the New York City sewer system, or is that just an urban legend?

First recorded in 1970–75

As The Miami Herald declared in a recent headline, “Obamacare enrollees become urban legend.”

I always thought it was an urban legend that the VW Bus is the most dangerous vehicle ever made.

In her deposition, she told plaintiffs attorneys that she considered drug diversion an “urban legend” and a “folktale.”

Think of the readiness to accept the (utterly bogus) urban legend about the Super Bowl leading to wife-beating.

But in 2009, McGillis squashed that urban legend in an interview with the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News.

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