urban legend

noun

: an often lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true

the urban legend of alligators living in the sewers

called also urban myth

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The urban legend has been that the uproar among local architects led the developers of the new building on the site to hire a firm from Houston, at a time when almost every downtown building was designed by a Chicago firm. —

Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024 The weight of capturing this dance — this sort of urban legend that had happened only a few times — was great. —

Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024 This tension over competing visions of womanhood fueled the kinds of collective anxieties that manifest in modern folklore and urban legends. —

Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024 The quartet of episodes released for the third mini-season ended with a banger, another blending of a classic urban legend with a modern issue. —

Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for urban legend